If states want to try this kind of thing, I am supportive, because they can learn from each other as laboratories of democracy. But the US federal government i

If states want to try this kind of thing, I am supportive, because they can learn from each other as laboratories of democracy. But the US federal government is the wrong organization to attempt it. Having them do it causes a loss of the freedoms we won in the 1770's: freedom from control by faraway people running our personal lives (and badly). I believe we are obligated to help each other (accountable before God), but not by force, nor by doing it in a way that the elected minority decides, because we lose freedoms that way (via taking more our incomes from us, taking and controlling the results of our work). Better to have freedom to do it even better, privately, or as communities, families, states, etc., when & how we so choose. States can decide otherwise, but no fed gov involvement. That is why we have the constitution that we do -- it is important.