If programs to ensure federal citizen rights were divided among the states it would invite disparity
Joel Send a noteboard - 13/10/2011 06:50:02 PM
Do you think states could handle entitlement spending (Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare) more efficiently than the federal government could? To facilitate this, increase of state government taxes and decrease in federal government taxes to properly fund the responsibility shift.
I mean, why not simply say blacks have voting rights and cannot be enslaved, then let VA, SC, MA and NY enforce that however they wish (or not)? Other than the fact that in states where a majority belong to a national minority opposed to a law the law would be ignored, of course. Apart from that, I see little more efficiency in collecting taxes from 310,000,000 people and distributing them to state governments by population to then further distribute by need according to variable state laws rather than simply collecting the money at the federal level then dispersing according to need as determined by a single system. It only encourages states to prioritize a locally more numerous demographic over more numerous and needy national ones (or prioritize no one,) which would be fine if they were not doing it with federal taxes.
Personally, I think the most inefficient tax burden is at the local level for the above reasons, which are consequently the reasons complaints about taxes get louder in areas with higher local taxes and more local government programs: People paying more local taxes are getting less bang for their tax buck, not more.
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States and Federal Government
- 13/10/2011 05:08:14 AM
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No.
- 13/10/2011 05:59:07 AM
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Re: No.
- 13/10/2011 07:07:14 AM
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Re: No.
- 13/10/2011 01:59:58 PM
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Economy of scale applies to every private bureaucracy, but not government ones. 
- 13/10/2011 06:53:44 PM
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- 13/10/2011 06:53:44 PM
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you can do it with block grants
- 13/10/2011 06:13:48 AM
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Believing the states can't do it, is not the same as saying the states will be less efficent or more *NM*
- 13/10/2011 06:42:34 AM
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Medicaid is already state-managed 
- 13/10/2011 06:22:54 AM
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- 13/10/2011 06:22:54 AM
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I pretty much agree with this
- 13/10/2011 02:03:04 PM
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It may still be a better option though, but I wouldn't consider it a likely great success story
- 13/10/2011 09:23:16 PM
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No I do not believe they do could do Medicare or Social Security more effectively *NM*
- 13/10/2011 06:41:03 AM
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Care to elaborate? *NM*
- 13/10/2011 06:55:21 AM
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Would you rather have 50 insurance companies with different pay structures or 1?
- 14/10/2011 02:14:23 AM
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If programs to ensure federal citizen rights were divided among the states it would invite disparity
- 13/10/2011 06:50:02 PM
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- 13/10/2011 09:55:04 PM
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Because some things do not matter much with geography and culture
- 14/10/2011 02:20:04 AM
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Yet again I must disagree
- 14/10/2011 05:04:43 AM
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Think about fire, how much need will Alaska have for fire trucks? *NM*
- 14/10/2011 12:30:05 PM
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Some issues are exclusively local and best handled there, as are some resources.
- 14/10/2011 11:22:46 AM
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The first thought that came to mind.....
- 13/10/2011 08:55:36 PM
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Depends on the state and its legislators, doesn't it? But, generally, no. *NM*
- 14/10/2011 06:50:13 PM
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Pick your rapist and tell me why it makes a damn bit of difference. *NM*
- 15/10/2011 05:06:50 PM
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