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> Public services are (in too many cases literally) criminally underfunded.

Finish the job and end 'em. The US isn't a compatible platform for that kind of thing. It's a decentralized libertarian wild west with low social development, as intended from the start. Meanwhile, our taxes are going to waste in ignorance of that or in pretending we can (or even should) change it.

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Kind of ... there's obviously a lot of things that states can do with positive ROI. Infrastructure, policing, etc.

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/01/wh...