Bill Thompson

And the federal government wants all the power up there as well because they make $300,000 a year before they become a politician and they're worth $30 million when they're done being a politician because all of the money has to go to the federal government because they're in charge of

Light bulbs we can use, computers we can use, flush toilets we can have, how our roads are going to look, what our medical care looks like.

None of those powers are explicitly written in the Constitution of the United States.

And they use things like the Commerce Law and other things in order to create things like Obamacare, where really we want competing states.

If Texas comes up with a great way to do health care,

And North Dakota's isn't so great.

They can look at that experiment.

They can adopt the principles and they can have it at that level.

But it's much easier to get change at the local level when the power is derived from the state and the individual.

Because if I want to change the way that my state does health care, I have one of two options or three options.

I can run for office.

I can support someone who is going to go into office and do what I want or I can move.

But when everything's centralized at the federal government and everything flows from the federal government, all of the money, power, and gravity is up there.

And the individual, the 300 million of us or so, have really no power now to exercise either states' rights or individual rights at the higher level.

I hope I'm elucidating this correctly.

You are.

But it's a real usurpation of individual and state autonomy.

that really got rid of state power, which was, if you read the federalist papers, was so important to the founders that there was this state, that the state's needs were organized because the state was where the founders wanted these thought experiments.

You read Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, or John Locke, or Montesquieu, all of them talked about this great experiment that was being set up and how it was built on all of this Western politics and everything that had came before it.

on how we could have a government that was forced to respect the rights of individuals and allowed for these competing think tanks of ideas and that the power would never rest at the federal government.