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(#30) ...By the way, I did notice that your suggestion about bike paths simply shifts the taxpayer's burden from one branch of government to another, saving nothing. Good work.  |
Au contraire...it saves federal dollars to "pay for the war"...the original question of this thread.
This goes to the very
fundamental reason of why we have states and a federal government...and here we clearly know which came first. The states created the federal government.
If the argument is being made that the federal bureaucracy is to be involved in the minutia of local bike paths then why have state and local governments at all? The spending policies implemented by Washington today are in stark contrast to the original philosophy found in the
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The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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State (and local) spending is closest to the citizens that beneift from that spending where it can be monitored. So by all means, build the bike paths and pave them with gold if that's what people want...but have them voted on and funded locally by the citizens that will benefit from them.
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