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Yeah, it looks pretty dumb. On a somewhat related note, if we folded the federal government and signed a free-trade and migration pact between the 50 states, w
by Prrometheus 18y ago
Yeah, it looks pretty dumb.
On a somewhat related note, if we folded the federal government and signed a free-trade and migration pact between the 50 states, would we miss anything?
- lliiffee 18y agoIllinois would miss the existence of feds to investigate corruption like Blagojevich the state is incapable of self-policing.
- Xichekolas 18y agoWell there are economies of scale when you only have to maintain one standing army rather than 50 separate ones.
- gaius 18y agoActually, you only need 2, one for each coast. The Founding Fathers did not approve of expeditionary warfare.
- jerf 18y agoAs much as I love me some Founding Fathers, when they lived, 40 minutes got you a few miles away if you traveled with all available speed. Today, the other side of the world is only 40 minutes away on a ballistic trajectory. (And I'm not even counting information warfare where it's less than a second away.)
- jdminhbg 18y ago> The Founding Fathers did not approve of expeditionary warfare. I don't know that that's necessarily the case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
- jcl 18y agoLikewise, there are large-scale benefits to having a cross-country highway system, even if it goes through states that couldn't afford it on their own.
- lallysingh 18y agoAnd Texas would start invading everybody. :-)