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| I'm not sure I agree with you Dak, Canada has the most de-centralized federal state in the world (or at least top 3) and it doesn't bring happy rainbow sunshine.
What it does bring is a lot of bickering, a lot of judicirial review of what the provinces have control over and what the federal gov has control over.
It creates bickering because the provinces cannot support most of the programs on their own and need the feds to deliver money but then not allowing the feds to have any say on how the money is spent.
A strong state/province isn't going to solve all the problems, and it creates a lot of unneccesarry headaches. |
That is the way this country was founded though. Our founding fathers never intended for us to have a strong centralized government. We were in fact a Confederacy which just means an alliance between persons, parties, states, etc., for some purpose.
How well it works doesn't matter to me. I don't want a centralized government making my decisions. I want the states to decide.
That is just like the issue of medical marijuana. That state of California legalized it. The Feds were coming in and raiding State ran facilities and seizing the marijuana. It should have never happened. The state made the decision. The Feds should keep their noses out of it.