What If Taxpayers Could Choose if Taxes Went to the State Level or Federal Level

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What If Taxpayers Could Choose if Taxes Went to the State Level or Federal Level

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22 HOURS AGO Ryan McMaken

In recent years, we've examined any number of ways of decentralizing the American political system. These step-by-step moves can include decentralizing the monetary system, decentralizing the military, decentralizing immigration policy, and decentralizing elections.

Most recently, we looked at decentralizing the welfare state, and found that each US state is more than wealthy enough and big enough to run its own welfare state at the state level without any need of planning or centralization through Washington, DC. Whether or not one thinks a welfare state is a good or necessary thing, the fact remains the US government is not an essential part of the equation.