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Well 2 things.

First I stated smallest practical, and with that it would depend on the power we are talking about, so the smallest practical for national defense would be the federal government, the smallest practical for professional licensing may be state level, etc.

Also in that idea of federalism also include natural individual rights that can never be violated at any level of governance, including property rights like when you can open your shop...

And when we talk about American style federalism one must also recognize the checks and balances of power that over the last 100 years or does have been worn down but not eliminated. These checks need to be strengthen so no single arm of the government can end up tyrannical like your fear

I recognize the possibility of local tyranny, I think American federalism has checks in it for that. However even in the worst example of city tyranny that is far and way preferable to the alternative of an all powerful federal government

I am the person that made the claim, I am pretty sure I understand what I am trying to talk about.

This seems to a terminology / definitional problem we have, something I am trying to get beyond because like I said from the beginning a "union" in the US is not the same as a "Union" in the UK/EU, that is my point from the start

So when we have these international discussions and people from the UK/EU are aghast that anyone in the US would be opposed to Unions they are talking from what they understand from the Unions on their nation, which IS NOT what we have here in the US.

My attempts to convey the differences has failed with terminology issues and technicality gotchas largely due to a massive political bias in favor of unionization so any time anyone tries to convey a negative about a union is gets drowned out either by people not in the US that have no idea what a US Labor union really is like, or by people in the US that only understand the concept of a US Labor union but not the reality of it

> Disgusting.

Wow, opposing mob rule is "Disgusting." now

real democracy

That is why I oppose "real democracy", I prefer a Constitutional Republic with powers widely distributed in a federalist model.

if the majority goes psychotic nothing will help us

No, that is the exact thing a Constitution, Distributed Power, and Checks / Balances is designed to counter, to ensure the majority can not simply force their will over the minority.... and the smallest minority is the individual

What is actually disgusting is your rejection of natural individual rights in favor of majoritarian rule

Doesnt the EU pass unfunded liabilities back onto the member states?

Meaning the EU will pass a law or regulation or program that the member states then have to fund with domestic taxes?

Generally speaking for the federal government, if they want to pass a program or requirement the federal government must also pay for that, for example the federal government could not require the state governments to put in bike lane on all road with out giving the states the money to do it.

That is why the Federal government is so large..

Also defense spending, We actually honor our NATO treaty by spending no less than 3% of our GDP on national defense, something the EU nations never do

>US states cannot just ignore federal law

They absolutely can and do. State government are under no compulsion to enforce federal law, nor do they have aid federal law enforcement. Sure the FBI can still arrest you but as a practical matter the federal government relies heavily on local law enforcement for support in their efforts and task forces.

The state governments can neuter federal enforcement by refusing to supply personnel and equipment or other support to federal law enforcement task forces and actions

Conversely the federal government also supplies (i.e bribes) local law enforcement with money, and gear to grease the wheel for that support.

The supremacy you are referring to with the Supreme court is about when Federal Law and State law conflict then Federal law would win over State Law. Personally I think this is bad but until there is a constitutional amendment to change it that is the reality. However that supremacy does not mean state law enforcement or governments must enforce federal law, only that they can not overrule/supplant a federal law with their own

> A topical and obvious example is that the current Roe vs. Wade controversy just couldn't happen in the EU - as it's unrelated to trade or competition

Well according to the Current Draft our federal government did not have the power either. It is funny you mention trade, you do know that ACA is a trade regulation the constitutional power that allows ACA to exist is the interstate commerce clause of the US Constitution, that was MASSIVELY expanded in power by the court in the abomination / disgraceful 1942 Wickard decision which effectively made every activity a commercial interstate activity that can be regulated by the federal government.

Personally if the court is in the mood for over turning precedent someone should take a case to them aimed squarely at over turning that abomination, putting the federal government back into their proper scope and place

In mixed enviroments being able to use Powershell on both Linux and Windows allows for people to only have to learn one scripting environment, and allow you to share functions, modules, and tooling between the systems.

that alone is a big WIN for PS imo

Also I find Powershell to be more enjoyable to use (I like the verbosity, the help system, and passing objects instead of text streams.. I know I am crazy), and easier to train new Admins on PS than bash or python.

That depends on the context, I have a feeling we differ widely on what we view as the "crazy people" that are taking over given the natural demographics of HN and that fact that I am generally politically unaligned with most people here given I am a individualist libertarian politically

that is the beauty of local control, if School Board in another state does something you do not like, good news it does not effect you. If the Dept of Labor does something nationally you do not like well there is nothing you can do about it as your power is diluted due to national level, and you can not move...

I have never had one actually require it, often the installers will claim that but back in the day I would just say "sure here is my linux machine have fun installing your windows software on it" and magically they did not need to install anything any more....

Bitwarden Family / Pro / Enterprise also has the ability to Setup TOTP based MFA which is then synced to other devices

I use both Authy and Bitwarden

Is there anything else I need to do?

Buy a custom domain, and use that for your important email this way you can never be locked out of your email....

I want politics and taxation to be more local in the smallest division practical, with extreme limits being placed on the power and scope of larger political organizations. In short I fully support US Style Federalism and oppose the move to make the US Federal Government all powerful

If I was in the EU I would support sovereignty of the nation states,and oppose efforts to make the EU Government all powerful

the move to make governments larger and all encompassing including calls for a 1 world government, are IMO a threat to individual freedom and will not have the desired effect you seem to think

>We have unions for a particular company for example, here is the Wikipedia link for the Nationwide Union

The question I would then have is do the employee of Nationwide have to join the Nationwide Union or could they if they wanted choose a different union, or no union at all. Practicality or downsides aside is it legal for them do make that choice.

That is a misinterpretation of that ruling, which applies to non-union members being forced to pay dues

Union Shops, where by in Non-Right to work States the union negotiates with the Employer (private not public) that all employees of the group will be represented by the employer the employer can still be required to force employees to join the union with in 30 days, normally this is an automatic process for "union shops"

Again this varies by state, and Right to work states can not have such a provision, however Janus decision DID NOT outlaw union shops.

Also none of your comment seems to refute or attempt to explain the differences between UK or other EU unions and US unions, which is the context we are discussion, gotcha technicalities do not go to this over all conversation which is the vast differences between how unions operate in the US vs other nations.

That is a technically in terms only. So apologies for using "closed" [1] instead of "union"[1] shop which are functionally the same thing, and Union Shops still very much exist which is clear from my description of what I was talking about in my comment, (i.e I clearly stated employees were required to join the union post hire)

Right to Work states are a counter to Union Shops, which there is active efforts to do away with Right to Work laws

[1]Closed Shop A company that only employs union members and requires them to secure and maintain union membership as a condition of employment.

[2]Union Shop A company that doesn’t require employees to join a union in order to be hired, but they must join within 30 days of employment.

The big difference (and please correct me if I get UK info wrong, I am not an expert in UK Labor, I am versed in US Labor) that in the UK you have sector unions, not enterprise unions. A company may have employee's working under several unions, and I believe there are even competiting Sector unions that an employee can choose to join finding the union that best suites them

In the US, typically, the is a 1:1 union, enterprise relationship. If you want to work at company X, you must join Union Y with no options to join a competing union, no options to opt out, and no regress if you do not feel the union is representing your interests.

referred to as "closed shops" there is large amounts of corruption, favoritism, and other negative quality to many US Unions.

My feelings are bit of a mix bag, some of the complaints I would agree, but some of them seem to be either employee or more likely media exaggeration.

I have no respect or trust of "main stream" media so the reporting on the issue has me questioning what the reality on the ground really is, and the reality from people experienced in working at other warehouses.

"letting it happen" could be many contexts as well, letting is happen could mean that the managers were soo terrible at their jobs that they allowed issues to fester to the point where the employees were disgruntles enough to vote in a union.

Happy employees do not vote to unionize. The "hot take" here is that Amazon management wanted to the managers to some how play hardball with the union, in my experience with issues like this normally management does the opposite and trys to "kill it with kindness" and attempts to stave off unionization by trying to resolve the complaints of the work force while balancing the needs of the company.

Sometimes the workforce is just too far apart from where management wants to be then I union is likely to form, but my guess is upper management at amazon feels these middle managers did not do enough to address the workforce's concerns.

Elon should buy it and take it Private ;)

This is one of the ongoing problems with discussion about "unions"

"Unions" in the US are very very very very very different legally than "unions" in EU and other nations, personally i think they are so different we need a different term for them...

The closest we have to a EU style union would be something like SAG, or the other entertainment unions, which often referr to themselves as Guilds.

The employment unions like being formed at amazon are different animals all together which have ALOT of downside for even the workers in them.

ATT, the company with the Death Star as their logo, is hostile to their customer base? Say it is not so...

ATT is the worst company, even worse than comcast. Doing something to just be hostile to their customer base is in their DNA, they are used to their monopoly status from the say of Bell Telephone, that company will never change and will never be customer friendly

Both of these links are the same source... May want to try diversification in you sourcing but I suspect you are in an ideological echo chamber so...

They fail because they treat military spending incorrectly. Military is deploy based on the strategic needs of the nation, it is incorrect then simply include military related spending in a state, with the taxes collected from the state. This will always impact the results in favor or more dense states as military spending is often inverse to population density for obvious reasons.

The other failing is using the child tax credit as the basis for "Individual Dependency", aside from that being absurd on its face the idea then that you want to use people taking their legal tax credit passed by democrats to make a political point it just insanity

Again these "lol Red States need federal money" stories are partisan hack jobs that cherry pick data, and do not actually prove anything nor can they be used to make commentary on political policy, or anything.

People using them, reporting on them, or other wise engaging with them are either showing a lack of basic economic reasoning skills, or are partisan hacks looking for confirmation of their own person bias.

Which are you?

My guess is you just read the head lines, maybe the story but never actually look into the methodology or underlying goals of the people creating these "studies" (and I use that term loosely) because it confirms our personal bias you simply listen and believe

The single years old partsian study that is the basis for the "takes in more takes than they pay out" is intellectually defieciant on many levels and ignores all kinds of inconvenient truths

Anyone uses that as a justification for anything is just further perpetuating partisan divids not looking for solutions to any public policy problems

So is that you? Just a partisan hack seeing through the my tribe good lens of party politics

See may other comments as I have already addressed this, but it does not follow that "running it like a business" precludes serving rural America.

it is moronic to claim other wise. People that continue to make this claim clearly do not understand how to run a business at all, and are operating under this weird anti-capitalism rhetoric...

as for Amtrak, I would be in-favor of a complete shutdown of that service, the USPS has some albeit limited constitutional basis for its existence, Amtrak does not

Believing that the Republicans are anarchists is just laughable. I would like it if they were, I prefer a much smaller government than what the Republicans desire.

It does not. the ACLU policy shift can be best described as a shift from the defense of individual rights to defense of group or collective rights.

I am ardent supporter of individual rights.

This is largely also the difference between the EU/Canda and the US. where the US has traditionally and correctly placed the most importance on individual rights. Where as the EU places the focus more on society in general or groups in society over the individual

The ACLU is the AMERICAN civil liberties union. So talking about them in an US context is the proper context

That is a stretch. You comment has nothing to do with copyright. If you want to talk net neutrality summit something to discuss that. This thread should be about the harms of copyright

>are subsidized by the government (very few toll roads exist in the US, it's mostly combination State and Federal funding which builds highways.)

Toll Roads is not the only User Fees applied to fund roads. Other Fees include but are not limited to Gas Taxes, Vehicle Excise Taxes, Registration Fees, License Fee's, Wheel Taxes, etc.

That is with out adding in other revenue's that should also be considered user fees but typically are not like Vehicle Sales Taxes, and Fines for traffic violations.

Americans pay a TON of money directly in fees for access to the road system above and beyond tolls

Further the Interstate system is considered to be a National Defense project, that citizens are allowed to use, kinda of like GPS.

>The USPS might be able to turn a profit

"Run like a business" do not mean "turn a profit". Not all businesses are for-profit enterprises.

A better turn of phrase may be found in the axiom of "Government Programs are judged by their intentions, Private Enterprise is judged by their results"

"Run like a government" generally means a program is not judged by the results of the program, and any failing of the program is simply a matter of spending ever increasing amounts of money never critically looking at either the program itself or the assumptions of the programs

"Run like a business" means looking at the objectives, setting a goal to achieve the objective, taking action, then evaluating the results of the action. Looking for inefficiencies, bad objectives, false assumptions, etc etc etc.

running it has a business does not preclude requirements placed upon it by government. All businesses have to comply with government regulations, and a regulation that requires USPS to service rural routes would not preclude running the organization as a business.

It could change things like Frequency of delivery, or other cost cutting but I have advocated for that anyway even for non-rural routes. personally i think residences should get mail delivery on Tue and Thur, and businesses on Mon, Wed and Fri with none of weekends. that alone would be a huge cost saving.

I am normally not a big fan of government as a private business..

However USPS and Amtrek NEED to be run more like a business. The fact they have not been for decades is part of the problem with the services.

If we are talking something like the police, or fire or something like that I would agree that is dangerous to run those services like a business. I however do not put USPS on the same leave as police and fire.

they ship envelopes and packages from one location to another, that is a business and it should be run like one