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Originally Posted by samcol
I tend to agree with some of what you said. I'm a strong believer in the tenth amendment. Our federal government has grossly overstepped it's bounds. It has no business getting involved in things like healthcare or education. The federal government really only exists to protect the union as a whole, and to facilitate trade between the states. Many issues should be left to the state for two reasons: each region of the United States may have a different view of an issue, and things are much easier to change at the state and local levels.
The other problem with having a huge federal government that funds everything from the top down, is that each local issue that you mention does become everyone's business because it is part of their tax money that pays for these things. Since their money goes towards they do and should have a say in what is happening. All the more reason to leave these petty issues to the states and let the feds concentrate on the military and interstate issues.
This is how things were intended, and it would allow liberal areas like large cities to have universal healthcare or social security, while more rural areas that are typically conservative could have God in their schools and gay marriage banned or (insert other regional stereotype here).
The first step is to stop federal spending on issues that the federal government doesn't have any bussiness being involved in like abortion, healthcare, education etc. Then each issue truly does become a local issues and can be dealt with better that way.
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That is true conservatism...... not this bullshit the leaders in the GOP are trying to push.
Lol.... but see that's where the problem lies and why I say we are all responsible (some more than others), because I feel that part of protecting the people is making sure they are as educated as they desire to be and as healthy as possible (this means EPA standards on water, air and ground quality and USDA food inspection).
While for education it would probably work, for healthcare it could, but the food inspections and EPA would be a mess. Say my state/county/city has universal healthcare and yours doesn't, you get sick you'll be coming in and leeching off the system and thus arguments breakout.
So to some degree unless you come up with a system that prevented that, serious problems could exist.
I'll use my job as an example. We are the only true Detox for indigents and those without insurance in the area. We have contracts with a few surrounding counties that if they pre-cert and say they will pay we can treat.... otherwise you're SOL unless you are in full borne withdrawal. It's a system that works well.
So if the Feds. stopped taxing for those and the communities did the money would be put to better use.
Of course, the fed has to pay down the deficit and that is where a huge part of our taxes are going.
Things like workers rights, minimum wages and so on have to also be safeguarded.