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.
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.