[wara23arish]

Isn’t the problem the same with both systems but one just scales a lot better and is more dangerous?

Im intrigued by why you believe federal level should override local variations. It seems so counter intuitive.

[PaulDavisThe1st]

I haven't argued for the federal level to override local variations, in fact I specifically said that it's an important problem to figure out how to avoid this.

The first problem is that city/county/state governments in general have completely inadequate power to confront national or trans-national corporations. The second problem is that some things (e.g. health insurance) really do work better when handled at the largest possible scale.

There are clearly things, like running the municipal rec center, where local government is better positioned than any federal government agency probably ever could be (though I stress "probably"). But there are lots of things where the opposite is true.