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Originally Posted by Samoht
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That's BS and you know it. People in California/Washington clearly have a different lifestyle from those in Tennessee/Kentucky. Why should they be ruled by laws mandated 2500 miles away by people with no knowledge of their day to day lives or no interest in learning about them?
The goal of politicians is to get richer by fleecing Americans, we can agree to that, yes? So don't even start on how they elect representatives and send them to DC. Without any knowledge of the views of the pollsters in KY/TN, this is purely hypothetical, but why should they get a say in whether or not gay marriage or recreational marijuana is legal in CA/WA?
They shouldn't. Neither should anybody in NY, TX, OH, WI, or FL.
We are more fractal now than we've ever been. There are some intrastate economies that are more powerful than ever (Texas), and some that are crumbling internally (California), so why should we trust someone from Massachusetts to try to fix either one?
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I mean, I hear you dude, I understand the concept of the free market and how it is supposed to work.
I don't agree that it's OK that people from one state (which may not have the resources or specific leadership of a more prosperous state) to suffer huge losses while another (which probably does have resources and or better specific leadership) benefits.
Get those people who are doing well to do well for everyone. To do otherwise is immoral.