In illinois

Oh. Fix that...

Guns are fun and fun is illegal in this state

Just like a balanced budget or a competent governor

Balanced Budgets are illegal nationwide.

Fair point

*sigh* I have to wonder if the U.S. would be more or less secure if each state funded it's own defense instead of producing that money for the Federal Government...

It'd be so much cooler to join the Texas Infantry than to join the U.S. Army

more, until the states decide to infight again

California goes down first

The Civil War was a mixed fucking bag.

~~aren't all wars?~~
nvm, some are just pure bad

Like, I get it. Slavery was bad. Slavery was wrong. But we lost a LOT OF GOOD IDEAS to the resolution of bad.

should start decentralising power again?

That is absolutely my stance.

Centralized power isn't the problem

The problem is the top-down rule.

civil war wasnt over slavery...

inb4 it was the jews

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War

but yeah, top-down is a disgrace
but how would you avoid it?

It'd be REMARKABLY difficult to fix it to begin with.

But I mean

most of the problematic legislation comes from what amounts to bored congressmen anyway.

lol

First thing's first, Congress needs to stop being a career.

You should not make a living wage off of Congress - Congress should not take that much of your time.

so stop lobbies and lower politician's wages? public campaign financing?

Congress should be more like the School Board.

(how does a school board work?)

Basically appropriates funds

It's a system for oversight

MUCH LIKE CONGRESS IS SUPPOSED TO BE

Just a heads up

I'm going to put a BIG WALL OF SACRED TEXT up in this place.

Ugh

You guys are NERDS

i like the idea of having low wages for congress, but not below minimum
if they can't make a living wage as politician, only rich twits can comfortably run

because they aren't relying on wages

And I normally agree with you/ find you worthy to argue with

But I swear to god there is nothing I particularly care to speak to a woman about