I believe that at this point we can say with confidence that federalism has been tried and it failed misrably. Run the politicians out of the beltway and abandon federal buildings to tehe bats and screech owls. Federal properties should in the future belong to the states where those properties are. All such property, if marketable, should be auctioned offf and the millions of acres which the feds have confiscated cortrary to their constituional
authority should be put up for sale or auctioned off. If it weren't for the federal govt, there would not have been a civil war, WWI, WWII, the Korean or the vietnam war. OR the Iraqi fiasco.
Return all troops to their states and break the armed forces into 50 seperate arms which could operate jointly if ever necessary for national defense. All state funds would remain in the states which produced the wealth and without the federal beast to feed, the economies of the states would flourish, and the states would do a better job of caring for those truly in need at a much more reasonalble cost.