Towns that don't meet the cookie-cutter requirement for economic diversity will lose federal funding.
This is the only mechanism they have to force compliance. Despite being huge, the federal government really doesn't have a lot of employees or law enforcement that are able to impose their will on you. They rely on partnerships/cooperative agreements and coercion through withholding federal funding to get state and local governments to do their work for them.
State and local governments need to stop being reliant on federal funding if they want to maintain their independence.
The other issue is inflation. Federal funded things are massively inflated (healthcare, universities) to the point local governments can't afford them, breeding the dependence. While plenty of local governments are in debt, the relative amount the feds can do is much more.
There are deeper local problems as well, public sector unions being a big one. However locals will never afford things the feds have caused to be inflated.
True, and a town is probably too small of a political unit to effectively push back on the federal government to force them to change policy.
However, giving up federal funding and refusing to cooperate is probably the best way for states to fight back against overreach, woke policies, etc.
People don't realize how reliant the federal government is on lower level political bodies to function. For example: they have agreements with every state to share data for Social Security. They don't even know that someone has died unless the state tells them. That's just one thing the state can stop helping with to push back on the feds.
This is the only mechanism they have to force compliance. Despite being huge, the federal government really doesn't have a lot of employees or law enforcement that are able to impose their will on you. They rely on partnerships/cooperative agreements and coercion through withholding federal funding to get state and local governments to do their work for them.
State and local governments need to stop being reliant on federal funding if they want to maintain their independence.
of course, the townspeople will still have to pay federal taxes for the federal funding they will not be receiving.
The other issue is inflation. Federal funded things are massively inflated (healthcare, universities) to the point local governments can't afford them, breeding the dependence. While plenty of local governments are in debt, the relative amount the feds can do is much more.
There are deeper local problems as well, public sector unions being a big one. However locals will never afford things the feds have caused to be inflated.
True, and a town is probably too small of a political unit to effectively push back on the federal government to force them to change policy.
However, giving up federal funding and refusing to cooperate is probably the best way for states to fight back against overreach, woke policies, etc.
People don't realize how reliant the federal government is on lower level political bodies to function. For example: they have agreements with every state to share data for Social Security. They don't even know that someone has died unless the state tells them. That's just one thing the state can stop helping with to push back on the feds.
States need to cut off funding for the federal government.
Pretty much this. Stop sending federal remittances. They don't deserve it anyway.