{"id":8950,"date":"2016-09-06T17:03:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T21:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=8950"},"modified":"2016-09-06T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T21:03:09","slug":"move-the-federal-government-out-of-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/move-the-federal-government-out-of-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Move the federal government out of Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sounds good. But take it a step further. Move the MONEY out of Washington, and give the powers of taxation back to the States alone, forcing the Federal Government to obtain the funds for their budget from the States, and not vice versa. State Legislatures would then be able to hold the Feds accountable, and nobody would be losing $6Trillion here, $40 billion there. Federal lobbyists could spend their time petitioning States for extra cash, and we, the residents of those States, could tell our State legislatures to “Tell Them Go Fuck Themselves”. :~jg<\/p>\n

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Sounds good. But take it a step further. Move the MONEY out of Washington, and give the powers of taxation back to the States alone, forcing the Federal Government to obtain the funds for their budget from the States, and not vice versa. State Legislatures would then be able to hold the Feds accountable, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-8950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12111,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/sanctuary-cities-whats-at-stake\/","url_meta":{"origin":8950,"position":0},"title":"Sanctuary cities: What’s at stake?","date":"January 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"It's unconstitutional to use federal funds to force local agencies to cooperate with the federal government, and yet, it's been done many times. 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