“Any way, my thinking is of the founders. We are a federation of membership nations which control virtually everything that goes down within their own borders.”
I agree, and have always said the same thing. Most folks should never even think about the federal government, much less have contact with it.
I often ask folks if they realize the difference it’d make in their lives if the amount they’re paying in federal taxes actually went to their state government, and the amount they’re paying in state taxes went to the federal government. You listed the limits of federal power, and if we reversed taxation that would almost certainly happen.
I have long thought the very same thing. The tax schedule is completely inverted. We should be paying the most in taxes to our localities where we the people have the most control, and the very least amount to the federal government where we in our localities have virtually zero control.