Negative Space: federalism
- 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.
- 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.
