The national gubmit is not American, either.
It is the enemy.
Which was the purpose of the 2nd Amendment, and is the reason that gun sales are soaring.
Bring it, Dorkbama.
Make sure your fellow idiots are with you.
The people that hold the purse strings, hold the reins.
Lowering taxes at the state or local level may improve the economy in the short run, but it just means that more of people's tax money goes to Washington where it is used to create more federal mandates for the states to suffer under.
It just means more illegal aliens that the US government refuses to keep out of America, more federally mandated education "reforms", more federally mandated health care programs, more federally mandated traffic laws, smoking restrictions, environmental restrictions, land use restrictions, etc.