I believe that the fedgov could do its limited & constitutional duties w/ a budget of LESS than $1 trillion a year....much less! It should be limited to nothing but "war, peace, negociation, & foreign commerce" as James Madison stated in The Federalist Papaers #45.
The governments of the states should be as big or as tiny as the people of those states so desire. I guess the only Constitutional requirement of state governments is that they have a republican form of government, not a democratic or monarchical one. If the People's Republic of California or Massachusetts want to legalize all drugs produced w/in their state, LET THEM. If Utah or Mississippi choose to give the death penalty for the mere possession of a marijuana seed or for prostitution, LET THEM. We are 50 states, ea w/ a different view of things due to a variety of several factors, & the Founding Fathers knew & respected this.
That part wasn’t directed at you. I included you because I was interjecting myself into your dialogue with wagglebee