03-22-2017, 03:45 PM
(03-22-2017, 10:19 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: I too oppose unfunded mandates. If the Feds insist that the States Do X then they should provide Y funds for doing X. Absent of Y funds I see no reason why the states need to be bound to their insistence on doing X. Indeed in many cases if doing X was so great, and made sense for said state they would come up with the necessary funds and do X on their own
The actual case, though not in practice, is that unless a power is explicitly delegated to Congress then the several states are not obligated to do anything. That is the point of a written constitution and something the ninth and tenth amendments make perfectly clear to anyone who is actually read the Constitution.
You are right about the Feds being equally or more incompetent than the states. Considering the problems with central planning, this is to be expected.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises