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A question about the state reporting part: it’s voluntary, right?

So removing “legal barriers” still doesn’t compel a state to report, right?

This should be expected to trigger calls for increased vigilance at the state-level about this kind of reporting. “We don’t trust the Federal Government with our data, therefore won’t provide it” is an absolutely appropriate stance for a state to take here. And Conservatives dominate at the state level.

"And Conservatives dominate at the state level."

Show me a county and state (the two being linked) without many regulations against property rights (owner-building, high fees), new, small manufacturing shops, obsessive monitoring of legal, moral, private activities, intrusive, anti-family policies,...

I've seen the socialist activities of both sides conniving in concert against small businesses and private property rights in commissioners' meetings over the decades.

If Republicans running some of the states were so conservative, we'd have seen many repeals of particular restrictions against freedoms. Both political parties are quite socialist, and those who regulate most against new, small businesses and whole families are running the states and counties like machines.

Legislators and administrators in the states work closely and amorously with federal bureaucrats, because they want to, and such activities keep their salaries increasing. And then there's the federal pork (funding).

Money doesn't grow in trees. Governments can't continue spending big on services, real estate and tourism alone. Much new, small production is needed, and we're not seeing that new blood in production on U.S. soil. That's why there's so much effort to manage a horribly shrinking economy to fit the political class.

The political class is even getting into the drug dealing business.

Here’s a little more insight.

I don’t have any silencers, automatic weapons, etc., and don’t have any use for them. Many of those with big government incomes do, having recirculating debt dollars to burn, and they love to play with that stuff and pretend to be soldiers. Whatever. Let ‘em have fun.

My interest in the topic of firearms is making our Second Amendment right stronger instead of seeing it relegated to a particular class of people. Why allow that right to be enjoyed exclusively by well-to-do/respected folks like Joker Boy and the Newtown Martian, offspring of the corporatocracy/debt regime and street thugs with stolen weapons?

That’s where gun control is going, incrementally, thanks to the game of Democrats passing bad laws and Republicans refusing to repeal them. The same paradigm deposed small manufacturing shops and the kind of families willing to start and run them.

There’s nothing conservative about that. Conservatism isn’t obsessed with class, even behind implications. Fascism and communism are, where party favorites rule. To be conservative is to be old fashioned in morality and policies. Our forefathers weren’t trying to emulate old Europe with its European right and left. They worked for opportunity for anyone willing to work for it.

Why have people not long descended from Europe taken over both political parties and outlawed the kind of work where anyone can keep their profits (small manufacturing shops, small agriculture) instead of those profits going directly to slaver-bosses?

It would be nice to be allowed to build a house and start manufacturing something without the regulations against small owner-building projects and small manufacturing shops, even in one of the most sparsely populated counties. But it appears that we’ll have to wait, until the weird current experiment in oligarchy defaults.

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