It is not an "emotional issue" for anyone, it a real issue of low income children not having access to health care because of ideologues like yourself.
BS, you do not express preference, an allowance for an alternative, begrudgingly accepting that federal taxes should be paid to go to programs you do not like.....you are an ideologue who does not accept that any monies should be paid to or redistributed by a federal entity. You expressed that in our CHIP debate. You want Medicaid to be a state program, even when, as in the case of CHIP in AZ, those monies are not being distributed to low income families with children, causing children to become uninsured.
The point was, I understand how you work, you just verified everything I said, your use of the word "prefer" was a complete misnomer. You are a "states-rights" ideologue who does not show compassion for the poor if you go as far as to say that AZ is doing the right thing in not redistributing already paid taxes for CHIP.
You are living in a pre 1860s fantasy land where states become fiefdoms that can violate the rights of citizens.
It is a BS argument, right now there are monies from AZ taxpayers that are waiting to be redistributed back to AZ citizens....and you have argued that it is the right of a state legislature to not redistribute those funds. Your severe, wacky, reactionary states rights ideology will go so far as to refuse to call out a state legislature for not providing health care to deserving low income children. You are not compassionate in any sense, you are a hardcore ideologue.
Of course it can, there are thousands of examples....I just gave you one. Another are hundreds of examples of LA state environmental crimes by oil companies that were ignored because it is so cheap to pay off a state legislator, state inspector...any sort of state employee. Monied corporations have no problem getting what they want at the state level. You don't know how govt really works, this is what you don't get in high school civics classes.
Yer so frigging 19th century, the Civil War is over, your side lost and we are not going back to those bad old days. You just cannot accept that there are huge inequities between states, that the rights of citizens are negatively affected by the inequities everyday, and ideologues like yourself are indifferent to the plight of those effected. Yours is the worst form of reactionarism.....because you see first hand not only the damage done by your ideology, but the greatness achieved through federalism.
Of course there are, I never made an absolute utopia argument about federalism, I have learned though that the trade-off goes far into the favor of the federalism we experience today as compared to the 19th century you want us to return to. And you cannot argue otherwise, you have firmly entrenched your position in the 19th century.
Your side is what you profess NOW, where you exist NOW, what you argue for NOW. This has nothing to do with your childhood, your past....but your desire to turn back the US clock to 1850.