There are certainly a lot of things we could do alongside an idea like this one (like the ideas you mention), but I wanted to start with taxation because technically a lot of our autonomy could come from that one change alone without changing much else. We would still be the United States, we would still be one country, we would still ha…
There are certainly a lot of things we could do alongside an idea like this one (like the ideas you mention), but I wanted to start with taxation because technically a lot of our autonomy could come from that one change alone without changing much else. We would still be the United States, we would still be one country, we would still have the electoral college and all other things (for better or for worse), just the federal government would be operating with less money and the states would be operating with more.
You're right that big ideas tend to happen at moments of key inflection, and we're definitely at one of those now!
There are certainly a lot of things we could do alongside an idea like this one (like the ideas you mention), but I wanted to start with taxation because technically a lot of our autonomy could come from that one change alone without changing much else. We would still be the United States, we would still be one country, we would still have the electoral college and all other things (for better or for worse), just the federal government would be operating with less money and the states would be operating with more.
You're right that big ideas tend to happen at moments of key inflection, and we're definitely at one of those now!