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There's literally no chance of that happening in the US for fundamentally philosophical reasons. Politically the US has a very strong preference for pushing dec
by slivym 8y ago
There's literally no chance of that happening in the US for fundamentally philosophical reasons. Politically the US has a very strong preference for pushing decisions down to the lowest level they can, whereas European countries and Japan take a much more pragmatic approach.
- dsfyu404ed 8y ago>whereas European countries and Japan take a much more pragmatic approach. Whether or not a tendency to centralize more of their planning/decision making relative to the US counts as "pragmatic" is something many people (myself included) would take issue with. I think the most local level of government capable of dealing with an issue should be the one that deals with the issue.
- Spooky23 8y agoThat's an inaccurate characterization. The Federal government has a minimal direct impact on civil administration in populated areas and always has. Land use, code enforcement, permitting, police and similar functions are all state responsibilities that are delegated to varying degrees to county or municipal government. US States are also nominally sovereign. It's less philosophy and more legal.
- gascan 8y agoPolitically the US has a very strong preference for pushing decisions down to the lowest level they can, whereas European countries [...] take a much more pragmatic approach. This seems disingenuous. Pushing zoning decisions down from the Fed seems a bit more like the EU pushing down zoning decisions. European countries implement their own rules, US States implement their own rules. Both are about the same size.