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The states are to blame as well. In fact, they are more to blame than the federal government, which is predictably doing what all central governments have done since the beginning of human civilization, increasing its power exponentially...

Wow! Somebody has hit the nail on the head. The inherent rights of the individual were given to the state and the collection of states has made a pact with the federal government. This is the system we were under. The central government is doing what any beast would do, eating and growing.

The reversal of this trend will, alas, not happen. Anyone is welcome to come back to me later and say that I was wrong. I would welcome that.

I think you are right that a reversal of the trend will not happen. The reasons: First, too few people understand what the correct relationship between the states and the federal government actually is under the Constitution. Second, every state likes the system of double taxation which lets them tax their own people's incomes PLUS rake in billions from the citizens of the 49 other states via the federal income tax system.

The national income tax is actually a federal spoils system. The federal government uses it to continue increasing its power by both bribing the states and putting strings on the way states can use federal monies sent to them. For their part, the state political elites get to rake in huge sums they couldn't otherwise raise from their own populations.

I don't know of a single politician or political party in this country — not the Republicans, nor Democrats, nor Libertarians, nor Constitution Party, nor any independent, and certainly not the hard-left Greens — that speaks against this double taxation of income.

Here in California, an average person making in the very middle-class range of about $40,000 to $60,000 per year, who is unlucky enough to have none of the handful of deductions the pols have left us, sees 40% of his or her income skimmed off in combined income taxes. That's a tax bill of about $16,000 to $24,000 per year right off the top, before one pays car taxes, sales taxes, gas taxes, and all the other "fees" politicians and bureaucrats can think up.