[voidfunc]

Maybe we should let each state run the way they see fit... you know kind of like how the Constitution assumed things should be done until the Commerce Clause was used by the Federal Government to hammer every state into submission.

[micromacrofoot]

States love independence until their power grid fails or they get hit by a hurricane or an international pandemic.

[throwaway0a5e]

And states love the federal government until they can't get the legislative buy in to enact their pet policies.

There's no free lunch.