Sidenote: The best part of Trump's "Mutiny on the Bounty" tweet is that he compared himself to Captain Bligh... the bad guy in the story. What a dipshit. This is what I always thought, too. And now we have the Republican Party's current incarnation, Fox and OAN "news", and the opioid epidemic. In effect, the coastal states are subsidizing the stupidity in this country. If each state was allowed to proceed more on their own, without being subjugated to various Dept of Commerce policies, they'd be allowed to fail colossally and by their own hand, instead of being propped up by socialist wealth redistribution programs funded by the coastal states. There's a lot in that statement, I know. But if even HALF of the states had to stand on their own two legs, and operate fully within their own programs and policies - without being bailed out by California and New York's economies - then they would fail. It's time for these people to feel the real repercussions of their voting actions. I'm ready to kick them out of the basement and make them go out, get a job, and live on their own. I mean... they are in their 30's and still living in their mom's basement! :-) Clearly we need something to change, but on the other hand we need the administrative state to be as big as it is to administer most of the programs that help people.