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Trump's coal friends funded him into power, so now he is funding them.

I don't know when we will realize that big money and an imposing federal government both are evil. Money and power should ideally be distributed, not vastly concentrated. The Gini index and similar indexes come to mind. The purpose of a federal government should be to grant rights, not restrictions.

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> The purpose of a federal government should be to grant rights, not restrictions.

If the federal government is about granting rights, does that imply the default state is “no rights”? That seems objectively worse.

Individual states tend to take away rights. In the aforesaid approach, it's the job of the federal government to ensure they can't or don't.

"The purpose of a federal government should be to grant rights, not restrictions."

In the US, at least, that's exactly backwards.

The purpose of the Constitution was to specifically limit the rights the people gave to it's government and those who govern.

The 9th and 10th amendments were added to make that abundantly clear.

Unfortunately, the articles gave plenty of ambiguity to exploit.

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