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[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

One question though: who will help out poor communities?

Excellent questions. It's not meant to be simply fixed.

Another question: Who will take the boot off the necks of poor communities?

Who needs such a huge obscene military? Only industrial death.

Who needs high-speed consumerism?

Who needs toxic environments?

Who needs taxes?

Tyrants.

we need a strong central government non the less.

Yes/no.

If I were American though, I would advocate for reducing the rights of States and increasing the rights of municipalities while keeping the central government intact.

Interesting idea.

How's this suit you?:

Weakest: National
Weak: State
Strongest: County & Municipal

All the strong county and municipalities would need to co-operate together at the state and then national levels. We're no longer limited to the time it takes to ride a horse to another state, so communicating and organizing with modern tech is instant. Unified cooperative regions with strength create a strong state. Unified cooperative states with strength create a strong nation.

Despite all the bullshit, most Americans have more in common with each other than with others around the world. The propaganda makes folks loose sight of this. Rather than focusing on all this divisive bullshit, we'd have to try to focus on unity for strength.

[–]IamCleaver[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

"Tyrants." Sounds like a straw man.

"How's this suit you?:" Not really. I would want to live in a unified nation. I would prefer something like this:

Strongest: National

Weakest: State

Strong: Municipality

If I were American, I would want unify the criminal code for all states and hand the authority over it to the central government. Same for education standards. Healthcare, universities and highways should be handles by the States, but that is pretty much it.

[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

I would want unify the criminal code for all states and hand the authority over it to the central government.

Ripe for rampant abuses.

/s/DecentralizeAllThings and collectively create universal standards to measure things so everyone everywhere can benefit from "uniformity" that way, rather than from central command.

[–]IamCleaver[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

"Ripe for rampant abuses." How so? Most countries manage to do with a single, nation-wide legal system just fine. "...collectively..." That is what the national parliament is for.

[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Your blind faith in the system is unsettling.

[–]IamCleaver[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

You blind faith in the market is unsettling.

[–]JasonCarswellVoluntaryist 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I do not have faith in the market either.

I am skeptical of all things.

There is no "free market". Silk Road was hunted and killed.

[–]IamCleaver[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"There is no "free market"."Very true. That is why I support tight government regulations.