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> Why don't we just pay the federal government the entirety of our tax obligation and have them partition it out to the states? That would give far too much po
by patrickmay 8y ago
> Why don't we just pay the federal government the entirety of our tax obligation and have them partition it out to the states?
That would give far too much power to a federal government that already far exceeds its constitutional mandate. I suggest the inverse: The federal government should get its funding only from the states. Each state can decide how much to contribute and how to raise the money. That would decentralize power significantly.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoThe Articles of Confederation want their failed idea back.
- patrickmay 8y agoIt was only a failure if you think a strong federal government is a good idea. I offer the current situation as evidence against that.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoOr a failure if you want a functioning government. There's a reason the Articles were thrown out, and the inability of the Federal government to raise revenue so it could actually do stuff was one of the major reasons.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> It was only a failure if you think a strong federal government is a good idea. No, a stronger federal government was a solution that was proposed (and adopted) for it's manifest failure. It wasn't the idea that a strong federal government was good that led to the belief the Articles had failed, but exactly the reverse.