[familyop]

"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.

[archy]

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,...

Some places are most certainly better than others. And others are most certainly worse places to reside anyway.

I always liked this line. First read it in school back around 1965:

Sec.30. Monopolies and perpetuities prohibited.

Perpetuities and monopolies are contrary to the genius of a free state, and shall not be allowed. Corporations being creatures of the state, endowed for the public good with a portion of its sovereign powers, must be subject to its control.