San Lumen wrote:Well thats how a democracy works.
What specific part of my post were you responding to here
San Lumen wrote:Hamilton County, New York is in the same state as the Bronx. Issues they have can indirectly affect the other county. Everything is interconnected. No one is in a bubble.
Same state doesn't mean everything's interconnected. Zoning regulations in NYC shouldn't have anything to do with rural farming subsidies. Let the urban people handle the city zoning, and let the rural counties do their farming stuff. Of course when things affect other counties, cooperation is needed. That's where the state government would come in; fostering dialogue between counties to find solutions.
San Lumen wrote:Evil Dictators Happyland wrote:The way I see it, this is a case of deciding whether to disenfranchise the majority or the minority, and that's an easy choice to make. Urban areas have a much higher population and thus contribute more tax money than rural areas, so they should logically have far more representation. If they're going to be paying for the vast majority of the legislation passed, it makes sense that they should have the vast majority of the political power.
Amazing someone who understands how the basic tenets of government work. Try telling that to some of the posters here
I'm not condoning disenfranchising anyone. I'm suggesting you let everyone handle their own problems, and only work together when those problems span the divide. You just let urban counties use urban taxes to fund urban things. Let rural counties use rural taxes to fund rural things.
Second, don't tell me I don't understand the basic tenets of government. I'm not an idiot, and neither are you. We're just people not seeing eye to eye.