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Originally Posted by bullseyebarb
Redistribution of wealth.......aka socialism. The states would indeed have the resources if we were not required to send so much of our cash to Washington - where it gets sucked into the maw of bureaucracy. I prefer one on one solutions at a local level. This is not a one size fits all country. The states should be free to decide for themselves what their priorities are. Medicare is a federal invention and has done much to skew our free market system of medicine. I lived here before Medicare/Medicaid and having had ample opportunity to compare the two systems, I vastly prefer the free market version. It worked well and was low cost. As to same sex marriage.....the government should butt out. Marriage always was a religious institution. In my opinion, the government has no business trying to redefine it. Yes, individual states can influence national politics.
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I don't think that redistribution of tax revenue is the same as the redistribution of wealth. Redistribution of wealth is taking from the rich people and giving it to the poor. What I was talking about was redistribution of provincial tax revenue, or more precisely redistribution of federal taxes which of course bring in more money from the wealthy provinces than they do from the smaller, poorer ones.