American states with limited sovereignty should be envied by citizens of fully sovereign states.
The state I live in, Massachusetts, does not spend a dollar of its tax revenue of 22 billion dollars for wars and the military, for diplomacy, for economic negotiations with states worldwide, for a federal judiciary, for federal police, and for a retirement system. It does not affect my state if its citizens spend their money on federal taxes anymore than if they spend it on consumer goods. The state of Massachusetts is free from the burden of macro, global issues and it concentrates on micro problems within its reach.
Oh, but Massachusetts citizens are without the greater opportunities of citizens living in fully sovereign states! No, they’re not. We have democratic representation in two governments each with limited sovereign powers that combined equal full sovereignty. The American political system separates sovereignty into separate packages so that no government has full, absolute sovereign powers over any citizen or any business or any government. Everything in a fully sovereign state is ruled from the top down. The bottom free from direct control by the top is the place where real democracy lives and where I live.
Daniel McNeill’s play,The Body Is A Legal Drug, will have 7 performances during the Midtown International Theater Festival in New York in July and August at the Davenport Theatre 354 West 45th Street. 212-956-0948.
tickets $20.00 : https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/27845
Loving the one your’re with can come back to haunt you. A comedy about finding your true identity.
Performances: July 18 2:30 pm. July 20 6:30 pm. July 24 6:30 pm. July 26 7:00 pm. July 28 8:30 pm. July 31 8:00 pm. August 2 3:30 pm.
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