Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone
It's not more efficient.
A city is immensely better placed to deal with city issues than a Federal body. The same is generally the case for states.


My taxes are paying for three sets of autocrats, when in reality only one is worth listening to. If all the local government does is bow to the state, who in turn bends over for the federal government, what on Earth am I paying the two middle men for?
Local taxation applies only insofar as you take up residence or involve yourself in commerce within a particular locale. Federal tax is due for your citizenship and the former standards.

Geez Pindar, even assuming you're right, what kind of a mess do we have in our country? We have a system where annointed judges trump congress & the white house, who trump the state, who trump the local government, who have infinitely more rights than the individual taxpayer. And you call this representational? If what you've said is true, how far we have fallen. That's not at all the system mapped out in the original constitution, but I'll grant you, it is damn good for you lawyers. But if what you say is true, don't say we have a representational republic. The only difference between us and China is that they have one party dominating people's lives, we have two.
I am no fan of Judicial Review. I have commented on it fairly extensively in at least two other threads recently. Even so, Judicial interpretation of law is not necessarily an abuse.

Yes, 'it' is good for lawyers.

Yes, we do have a republic

No offense, your legal opinion is much more qualified than mine, that's all it is, your legal opinion. I sure hope you're wrong. And what kind of conservative are you that you think concentrating all the power in priestly caste up in DC is such a terrific idea?
What I outlined on the Court decision is not my opinion it is the legal standard as of June 6 by a six to three decision. The result means for those who support medical doobage: either the State must clearly delineate and control doobie use, or one would have to lobby the Congress to legalize Mary Jane.

I do not believe in concentrating law making power in the black robes of the bench. This does not mean I believe States are independent of Federal oversight. The Confederacy was wrong.