11-06-2020, 05:28 PM
(11-06-2020, 03:44 PM)Brownshoe Wrote: Getting rid of fracking would kill a lot of states. North Dakota benefits greatly from fracking. They fund free college education because of their fracking. A big portion of their jobs and economy is fracking.
Estate taxes hurt farmers, because farms mostly stay in a family. Farms don't make much money, but the land is worth a lot. So when a farm is given to a descendent the land might be worth hundred of thousands of dollars (maybe even millions), but because farmers don't make very much at all they can't afford to keep it. I don't really oppose all estate tax in the most part, but when it comes to farmers (who don't make much) have to pay TONS for property that's already paid off by there family is pretty ridiculous.
The 2015 Obama "Clean water act" update hurt farmers because it made streams federal property and made it hard to use the streams on their property to irrigate their crops and supply water to their cattle. Sure, that would help people in big cities by claiming all streams as federal property, but it doesn't help farmers at all.
You can't govern all of America the same, because we have different problems. One solution in one area could cause a big problem in another. That's why each state needs a voice. That's why each state votes for who they want to elect. That's why popular vote isn't the best option in our massive country. It might work in other smaller countries (like European countries that are the size of a state, and all of Europe is just barely bigger than the USA), but this is a big country with a lot of different problems.
I’m just going to focus on one of those issues. When it comes to resource allocation someone needs to have a 5000 foot view to determine the most equitable use to all those affected.
The farming industry in Georgia and Alabama along the Chattahoochee River have had a significantly deleterious affect upon the shellfish industry in Florida. People upstream can’t do whatever they want with water resources without regard for people downstream. The oystermen in Florida can’t vote for Georgia or Alabama to stop diverting water to irrigate the farms to save the oyster beds in the Gulf of Mexico. So who has the jurisdiction to regulate something like that if not the federal government? That’s not even a rural versus urban issue. But, urban areas have rights to water as much as rural areas and vice versa.
