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[Lydia Leftcoast]

3) Put even more governmental functions on the backs of the states, which will then raise their own sales and income taxes sky high to cover their needs.

In effect, the Republican/Libertarian dream will have been fulfilled. The Federal government will pay only for repressive functions (the military). The states will struggle even more than they are now and cut even more social programs, making the poor even more desperate, so that they will take sub-minimum wage jobs and live in even worse conditions than they do now, so that the rich can despise them even more.