Photograph by Kjetil Ree
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A new — and, thus far, little noticed — power-grab by the federal government of the United States:
This is not only reason for substantive concern, but for procedural worry: More and more, Americans are not governed by laws passed by majorities of their elected representatives, and, more and more, they’re losing their rights of local self-governance. They are ruled ever more intrusively by unelected bureaucrats in Washington DC.
On a perhaps related note: Take a look at this list of the twenty-five wealthiest American counties. (There are 3144 counties and county-equivalents in the United States.) How many of them are in Virginia and Maryland, clustered around the District of Columbia? Where do you think their wealth comes from? Logging, perhaps? Fisheries? Steel mills? Oil? Coal mines? Diamonds? Agribusiness?
It comes from you.
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