Italy has an enormous tax problem. Its government taxes absolutely everything it can for more revenue. Excessive taxes on businesses stifle expansion and employment. Widespread government corruption and the mafia take large chunks of public money. The only good thing about the absurd inefficiencies in its government is that at least some public money is recirculated justly into good hands as well as unjustly into bad. Massachusetts does not need a broad tax base for revenues because some possible government functions, like having its own military and diplomacy or its own social security system, are handled by its citizens’ second government in Washington. It does not need to create a large recirculation of money throughout its state economy by taxing extensively because federal taxes sent to Washington from fifty states create a gigantic continental-wide recirculation of money. Corrupt politicians in Massachusetts are tried and sentenced to jail in Federal courts by the Federal Department of Justice. The mafia is active in very few areas, is hunted down by Federal as well as State police, and is not a cancer in government as in Italy. Who is more sovereign?Technically Italy. But Massachusetts possesses a more efficient sovereignty because its political alliance with Washington leaves it free to rule mainly over matters of immediate interest to its citizens and, more important, to face public problems that only a state with limited sovereign responsibilities can readily solve for the public good. The best public officials in Italy with the best will in the world can not solve its problems. Massachusetts officials can. Who is more sovereign in an efficient manner? Massachusetts is as sovereign as it needs to be. Italy is totally sovereign and totally unable to function in a way that correctly manages its citizens needs.
Daniel McNeill
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