And in that year, nothing has happened that would change my general disposition concerning the subject:
I would agree with <redacted>, based on my most favoritist question “What is the Proper Role of Government?” that should be asked at each level of Govt. The closer the decision makers are to those that elected them, the easier it is to hold the bastards accountable (my, did I just say that?).
Just look at the tyranny that the Feds are doing via the Administrative State:
- HHS Secretary saying, with no authority to do, that 10% rise in premiums in “unreasonable” with no single legal basis on which to state that.
- The EPA is “tailoring” current law to fit its agenda of regulating anything economic under the guise of global warming (even as the law gives them no leeway to do it)
- The FCC, with no legal basis and having already been rebuffed by the Court system, has decided, on it’s own, that it can regulate the Internet.
- The Dept. of Agriculture, via Michelle Obama’s “we can’t leave it to the parents” nanny food law, can determine if Moms can send cupcakes for a school bake sale
Yeah, I did say bastards….and rightfully so.
When decision making gets further away from the actual voters, recent history has shown that bad things happen. I have no problem with the locals having the responsibility to pay for local stuff – because they also have the right to say “NO, we are not going to pay for it!”.
The only difference between then and now is that some of the above has become true with a vengance – and more – from our Federal government (aka, the Progressive Administrative State). Yet, while some of their actions require local spending, there is no local right to say no. Fortunately, at least from Concord, power to make decisions is being pushed down to the local subdivisions. And to be truthful, there is a part of me that says that the more the costs are borne at the local level, the more pushback there will be for funding it in the first place (and therefore, answering the question “What is the Proper Role of Government”.
