This is the way the American system works and on the whole it allows different places to have laws that reflect different groups of people. If you waited for f

This is the way the American system works and on the whole it allows different places to have laws that reflect different groups of people. If you waited for federal interests to align weed would still be illegal and probably never get legalized or only much later. Same with Gay marriage. You also have the issue with if the fed is making all of the rules are they going to send money to cover those additional costs or provide the services themselves if they don't it puts poor/rich states on different footings. You would need to look at equalization payments. Canada does a version of equalization but in reality one or two Provinces cover the costs for the rest. If another Province has a good year they lobby to change the formula to exclude that income. How would that work for the US? New York, California basically give 500 million a year to mostly poor red states to pay for services? I can't see that working well.. because if the next group in Washington starts enacting hard right laws (everyone gets a free gun) California has no power to enact different laws and they have to pay for everyone's guns. The other problem is companies would leave California and move to a poor state with better company tax laws and services.