Liberals see states as just a political division of power, lower than and subservient to, the Federal power.
That is why they absolutely go bananas when someone uses the term “states rights”. To them, a state has no “rights”, only the obligation to serve the will of the Federal government...
It was the original intention of the founding Fathers that local government would be the master of the federal mandate..We must take away the federal governments ability to raise money, it needs to be regulated by the states..