[potato3732842]

It's kind of funny if you think about it. Franklin spent so many years arguing for liberty, low taxes and limited government that when he tried to argue in favor of taxation and federal power he unintentionally still argued in favor of the former.

[Terr_]

A lot of our political discussions and systems these days are warped by a failure to understand the ways that state-versus-federal differences have changed over time.

Even today, it's not necessarily hypocritical for someone to argue that states should do more X while the federal government should do less X.