Except rural people aren't going to agree to that because it would mean an increase in taxes as well as massive amounts of state and federal intervention into t

Except rural people aren't going to agree to that because it would mean an increase in taxes as well as massive amounts of state and federal intervention into their communities. Edit: I do not buy that death threats have anything to do with the present stalemate. We are nowhere near a historic high water mark for pokticial violence in this country. The 1850s, turn of the century and 1960s were all very violent periods and the US government did not find itself paralyzed then. The biggest change is that one party has been over run by a philosophy that the government simply cannot do things well or make them better. You cannot launch a ship when half the crew denies that it will float.