Comment by fifilura
15 days ago
> because the federal government wasn't originally intended to do most of what it currently does.
Some times it feels like USA should become more like EU and EU should become more like USA in that respect.
Like the department of education, EU does not have that thing to begin with, each country takes care of that. So I am not very upset when they threaten to close that down.
While EU does not have a common defense which could be a good idea.
The US would be far better off to re-institute the original structure. Let the federal government do none of this, don't even have a federal income tax, and then California can have socialized healthcare and Texas can have low taxes and people can decide where they want to live.
Common defense is mostly relevant in wartime. The level of military adventurism the US engages in isn't anything Europe should covet.