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a federal government is a single body of policy which states opt into (more or less permanently). one read on GP is that we don’t need something this rigid for
by wallacoloo 4y ago
a federal government is a single body of policy which states opt into (more or less permanently). one read on GP is that we don’t need something this rigid for every coordination problem. time-limited and domain-limited agreements to which only some (large) subset of states agree could, possibly, accomplish the same things — perhaps with less political backlash in the process.
for example, state AGs band together in such a process pretty frequently.
- LordDragonfang 4y ago>a federal government is a single body of policy which states opt into (more or less permanently). I'm unclear as to why you're implying that the EU doesn't fit this definition, because the EU can be literally described under those terms.
- wallacoloo 4y agoEU membership is more fluid than US membership. and i’m not an expert on it, but my understanding of its origins is as an economic partnership first (promote a unified currency and compatible border regulations between member states). AFAIK the EU can’t declare war and has more limited funding/taxation options (e.g. rather than an individual income tax, the closest it can accomplish is a tax applied at the level of the member nation, and limited to 1.4% of GNP). that said, the US as a federal institution also started small and gained greater powers over time, so maybe this won’t be as significant as i assumed. as for litigation, i thought it was the individual member states that were suing Big Tech. i thought the only role the EU itself played here was that of explicitly stating the conditions under which members can do such things.