The two powers
Political, Economics ·Saturday July 31, 2010 @ 16:06 EDT (link)
Does U.S. Need to Split Along Political Lines?
Williams has put together a good sample of constitutional violations (Andrew Napolitano has even more in two books). However, he doesn't say how it should be done geographically. I propose that the Free States of America pick a new capital (Atlanta perhaps) [or nowhere at all...] and then let counties or even individuals "join" it as they wish [really just declaring shared independence from the USA's federal government]. State services remain the same; only federal services, regulations, and taxes would change for the persons or counties opting out.
Of course, as the base of people that wanted to pay for expensive and inefficient federal programs shrunk, a snowball effect would begin and the trickle of first-movers would swell to a roaring waterfall of people leaving the system. Eventually only people getting more out than they were putting in, and perhaps some liberal idealists, would be left; and like Molyneux's story about support for the drug war (if only those that want it pay for it; the more that leave, the more the share of total costs for those remaining increases, and people suddenly get the "live and let live" urges, down to the last person needing to kick in a few hundred billion all by their lonesome).
