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> I would prefer that states have more power and we further decentralize authority away from the federal government. No EPA. No DOE. No equality under the law.
by notyourday 6y ago
> I would prefer that states have more power and we further decentralize authority away from the federal government.
No EPA. No DOE. No equality under the law. No EOC. No NLRB. No Amtrak. No federal enforcement of consent decrees. No voting right act. No gay marriage, etc?
Edit: Thanks for downvotes. Every single one of these is enforced by federal and not state courts. It is federal court that gave us Roe v. Wade, for example. It is a federal court that prevents Alabama from running its own little fiefdom. It is a federal courts that gave us Brown v. Board of Education.
- jshevek 6y agoThe parent suggested a degree of change along a spectrum, you list possible consequences that might occur only if one takes the most extreme form.
- sokoloff 6y agoI don’t know that I’d put Amtrak on a list of things that I’m thankful we have a federal government to provide...
- dnautics 6y agoHave you ever met a DOE program manager? Have you ever personally dealt with an EOC lawsuit? I've done both, and let me tell you neither of those organizations comes anywhere near what you seem to imply they do. I'm not convinced society wouldn't be better without them.
- mikepurvis 6y agoA major thing the DOE does is keep track of where the world's plutonium is— it's energy-related, but also a national security matter. Michael Lewis's excellent book The Fifth Risk examines some of these agency functions in the context of what was lost when there Trump administration stepped into power with essentially no transition plan or concept of how to run them.
- dnautics 6y agoYou're making my point.
- mikepurvis 6y agoThem having critically important functions that are different from what their names might imply is not at all the same thing as "we'd be better off without them".
- dnautics 6y agoI was definitely in the "we don't need this reorg" camp when the DHS was created. Which camp were you in?