The states would have had a lot more leverage over the Federal government if they hadn’t short-sightedly passed the 16th Amendment, allowing Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states.
When a Free, and wants to remain Free Nation is up against Lefties at the control of a bulldozer that Nation doesn’t fight back with urine, but gets behind the controls of a larger, and more powerful bulldozer.
You are saying what?
This isn’t a pissing contest, it’s a fight for our lives.