Gov. Scott Walker: President Trump, More Local Control, Please. - Granite Grok

Gov. Scott Walker: President Trump, More Local Control, Please.

Presidential Candidates Address NRA Annual Meeting In St. LouisWisconsin Governor Scott Walker, in a letter to President-elect Trump, is asking the next Commander in Chief to cut the Federal strings and go to a program of block grants managed by state-level equivalents of the federal agencies without all the inefficient red tape and unproductive bureaucratic “oversight.’

The federal government was originally created to be a small, central government of limited powers, with everything else left to the states. Through years of federal overreach, this model has been turned on its head, and now is the time to right the ship.

Thank you, governor.

Now. I’m not expecting a full-on embrace of Federalism whether President Trump buys into Walker’s ideas or had them already. Divesting any bureaucracy of its accumulated wealth and power is a process.

Sending the Tsars packing is a day-one wave of the executive wand. Begone vile hangers-on from a bygone era. We have a cabinet chock full of leaders. They will not need an unaccountable shadow cabinet of pencil-pushing appointees to deflect. The added layers and duplicity are contrary to our goals.

But unraveling the weeds around the Departments of Energy, Education, DHS, and HHS, (as examples) might take a bit longer. A few months, at least. Maybe even years.

Mr. Trump can do a lot to advance this mission by reimaging all the instances where Congress got lazy and left the rulemaking and interpretation up to the Executive branch and the cabinet. The Secretary Shall… “give the money back to the states to do with as they damn well please,” is fitting and I hope we can change to that from the current thinking. It would be foundational.

A commitment to cut strings and just pass the bucks back to the state agencies and legislatures to apportion based on their individual priorities sets the trimming of the bureaucracy in motion. As state agencies take real control voters (see also taxpayers) can get involved locally. As local priorities are engaged the duplicate federal bureaucrats are no longer needed, aside from someone to decide who gets what back and then”write the check” more or less, those parts can be shut down and shuttered.

Entire blocks of DC office space could be sold or converted as bureaucrat refugees swarm away from the beltway in search of resettlement among the several states. Forced to become productive, the office space and the people could add to the prosperity of the nation instead of feeding on it like a parasite.

It’s a dream I have. Thank you, Governor Walker, for reminding us. “Power flows from the people to the government, not the other way around.” And then providing some great examples of who this idea can become more than just words.

Full Letter

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