Negative Space: federalism
- Broken but Unbowed
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott talks about how he survived the accident that paralyzed him, and how the United States can survive the system that paralyzes it.
- Bureaucracy or conspiracy?
- Is the federal government involved in a conspiracy to further the gulf oil spill?
- A customer service model of federal spending
- “If we can put a moon on the man, why cannot we devise a system whereby every state is billed by DC annually, and let the states compete for citizens to pay the taxes?” Moving from a system where the federal government taxes individuals to one where the federal government taxes state governments makes all of our lives a lot simpler and solves a lot of thorny civil rights issues as well.
- Dr. Frank N. Furter: the left’s answer to transgender bathrooms
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The left thinks transgenders are murderous, cannialistic rapists. And they approve.
- Every state should plan to secede
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A state cannot secede without a plan for handling the duties of the federal government. It’s the same stuff a state would need a plan for if the federal government becomes temporarily unable or unwilling to perform its duties.
- Government cheese goes to school
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Government cheese is government cheese, whether it’s a poor food product, poor housing, or poor education.
- Learning from alcohol prohibition
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If the people against ending drug prohibition had been around in the thirties, we would never have ended the prohibition of beer and cocktails, because of the dangers of pure alcohol and bathtub gin. One of the lessons of the alcohol prohibition era is that we don’t have to go from banning everything to allowing everything. There is a middle ground.
- Should we hold regular elections for Supreme Court Justices?
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Electing Supreme Court Judges creates more national elections at a time when the nationalization of politics is already one of the biggest drivers of contentiousness in elections.
- Supreme Court rules against patients and states
- During the early years of the Internet, I heard someone say that the drug war is the root key to the bill of rights. That seems to be all the more true this week as the Supreme Court chose to ignore the federalist arguments in Gonzales v. Raich in order to acquiesce to the drug war.
- Why Liberals should support federalism
- Federalism, or states’ rights, protects both liberal and conservative ideas. Now that liberals are in the minority, they should recognize the benefits of a decentralized political system.
More Information
- Walter Russell Mead On Liberalism
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“Taxes are so complicated as to be unworkable. Past some crossover income, one wonders if it is possible to do them correctly.”
- Broken But Unbowed• (hardcover)
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Governor Greg Abbott’s heartfelt appeal to break the system that paralyzes local businesses and that divides American nationally. (Greg Abbott)
