What Happened to Federalism?

Ok, everyone repeat after us:

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

That is, of course, the indispensable 10th Amendment and part of the Bill of Rights. It is now sometimes referred to as “the forgotten 10th amendment” because no one in Washington pays any attention to it.

Look what’s happened since the start of the “progressive era,” the New Deal, and then the modern welfare state of the 1960s. Power has continually shifted away from states and their localities to federal agencies. It used to be roughly two-thirds of government spending were done at the state-local levels. Now the ratio is nearly the reverse.

Almost everything Biden did in his ruinous four years in office expanded federal powers and treated states like subjects. And, voila: $2 trillion deficits across the horizon.

Trump should give back power to the states. Let them compete and serve as laboratories of democracy. This will lead to smaller and better government.