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The grand political experiment (left state vs right state)
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2012 May 18, 6:50am 2,016 views 3 comments
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I am in. I will also put in a $100 to sponsor OWS vs tea party football game.
bdrasin
2012 May 18, 8:21am
Ok, but Alabama has to pay us to absorb all of their refugees who will want to settle here
Ok, but Alabama has to pay us to absorb all of their refugees who will want to settle here
Precisely. When Social Security went up to the Supreme Court, after FDR got his New Deal passed, that was one of the arguements the justices cited as reasons for it being constitutional. The Constitution gives citizens and all who enter the country legally the right to move freely between states. As a result, states that offer benefits would get mobbed by the poor and disabled.
This is why Vermont and New York, which have each voted to study the possiblities of Single Payer healthcare for their states have yet to act on it. Personally, I believe the answer is simple, legthen the time it takes to become a legal resident of the state, then restrict the single payer system for state residents only. States do have the right to restrict recognition of residency, if not to keep people from moving.
A politics becomes more polarized, I find myself wondering why we don't just have ourselves a good ol fashioned experiment? Adjust Federal funds/budgets in a way that lets a red state go totally red and a blue state go totally blue and see where they are at after 5 - 10 years.
If Democrats just want to tax and spend, and Republicans just want to slash until grandma has to eat dog food. Why don't we just conduct an experiment to see which way works best. Take say Alabama and go all Republican, slash medicare, food stamps, Obamacare, lower corporate taxes, children are required to carry guns to school, etc. Then take a 'blue state' like Massachusetts and raise taxes on the rich, eliminate corporate loopholes, they already have Obamacare thanks to Mitt), all trees get one hug per day, etc. At the end of 10 years see which state and its people are better off. Only requirement would be that at the end of the experiment, each state is running a balanced budget.
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