The Glade 4.0

It's also worth noting that I think tax credits should DIAF, too.

Noooo!! Lol! My tax credits on my kids are the only thing keeping me from having to sell my house to pay my taxes!!

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

Additionally worth noting: property taxes are also completely unreasonable to impose on a citizen.

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

I agree that there's no bright-line, principled distinction between doing something at a state level and doing it at the national level. However, there are definite practical differences that make the latter more problematic for individual liberty. It really is much easier, both logistically and personally/emotionally to move to another state than it is to move to another country. In addition, state governments are, at least in theory if not always in practice, "closer" to the people that elect them and therefore more responsive to the preferences and concerns of the local constituents. There's also the "states as laboratories" idea, which allows for experimentation with differing policy approaches to find the best one. There are times when a national policy is morally (e.g. Civil Rights Act) or pragmatically (e.g. Clean Air Act) necessary, but the federalist system has its advantages.

I don't disagree. However, I think the whole states as laboratories is VASTLY oversold.

Liberals don't seem to complain about States as laboratories when California goes and creates emissions laws, or Iowa goes and makes a standardized test...

When have I ever advocated for either of those?

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

How can you possibly believe that central planning, rather than competition, creates the best products when every single shred of evidence runs to the contrary.

If your goal is to improve the average outcome, (life expectancy, general health, etc.) an inferior product that's available to everyone can have a better outcome than a superior one that only some can afford.

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

Elmo,

Could we get a source for that?

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

That said, this is quite obviously something that morally needs to be addressed at the top. The fact that we are the only 1st world country that doesn't already have universal healthcare should make that obvious.

Not if the goal is to have the best possible solution to an ever evolving set of problems. The trouble with a single, massive plan, is that you'll never know about the availability of better solutions, because they were never allowed to exist. Since when have monopolies led to lower costs for the payer and a better servive or product?

19 Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. 20 There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin

By forcing healthy people in their twenties and thirties like you and me who never go to the doctor to buy health insurance we won't use, the government can buy insurance for those who can't afford it. At least that's how I understand it.

In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin