Quote:Local government is always preferable to large scale government because it's more tractable to the will of the people. That's why the Constitiution was written the way it is, to have the federal government only do what is absolutely essential, and clearly the founders did not find the IRS to be essential.

 

The founders also didn't find the air force to be essential. That's irrelevant.

 

Here is the flip side of your viewpoint that having a patchwork of tax rules is preferable: it's an impediment to business. It's also a point of structural weakness for an economy which allows for players powerful enough to actually play states against each other to ratchet up favorable conditions for their individual business. What's worse is due to the smaller captive nature of those in the area they're MORE likely to bend to the will of powerful corporations on such issues.

 

If you want good tax structure it has to be national. Your idea would essentially disintegrate the country and welcome the Chinese in to take over the nation.

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