[ExI] common core educations standards, was: RE: far future

[Adrian Tymes]

On Jan 23, 2014 11:19 AM, "Mirco Romanato" <painlord2k at libero.it> wrote:
> I would see the utility of a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting the
> federal government to give any money to state or local government.
>
> Who own the gold make the rules.
> Who pay the piper choose the tune.
>
> If the Federal Government was prevented from giving money to the states
> (always with strings attached) it would have problems to Rule Them All
> as now.

Nice idea, but two large problems:

First, define "give money".  The relaxation of requirements to spend can be
a gift as much as actual money (sometimes more so since you don't even have
to cash a check), as can doing things in a way that just happens to profit
a state or local government.  They have long and deep expertise in finding
and exploiting these loopholes.

Second, good luck getting state support (required for a constitutional
amendment) for something forbidding someone else from giving them stuff.
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