government bed of procrustes
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as usual im not interested in the specific conflict. just a fresh set of framings
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From the perspective of the country, the cities live off them, by shifting paper around. The cities necessarily do this using laws that disproportionally fit the interest and culture of the cities
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don't you think "shifting paper around" is one of the mostly unfairly stigmatized practices in human history? essential to civilization yet never trusted, let alone thanked!
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It's all court vs country? Always has been.
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In this case country are actually the bad guys
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i mean, the states could always raise taxes enough to become independent from the federal government's means of control, but we all know they won't. the fiction of regional identity matters less to people than cash.
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It's part of the reason the US states have different laws. Then there's geography; water usage rights for the Hudson mean something very different for the Colorado. All in all, however, this clash is about who gets to tell who what to do.
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This is all just an elaborate argument for federalism.
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