Maastricht Treaty revisions needed?

[Jester]

A bad decision is better than no decision, and all that.

But... But... This is why I want things to be local. Sure, our rights as given by the Federal constitution need to be protected as a broad consensus, but how we choose to implement some policy, or whether we want to allow people to smoke pot surely can be handled as local concerns. So, let New Yorkers choose what works best for New York, but if they go bankrupt --- keep their fingers out of the Federal cookie jar! They chose badly, and now they need to suffer their own crappy choices.

Strange how, in your world, it is New York that has their fingers in the Federal cookie jar, when New York pays out far more than it receives, NYC especially.

The major recipients of Federal money are the poor, sparsely inhabited, rural states. The major contributors are the small, wealthy, urban states. If everything was "local," and everyone kept their fingers out of the "cookie jar," the result would be a sharp increase in rural isolation and poverty, and an increased gap between the Mississippis and the Massachusettses.

-Jester