“Washington is out of control. It does as it likes, without restraint. … We have no influence over them, no way of resisting. Except, perhaps, to ignore them. …

“The feds do not have the manpower to enforce federal laws within California without the help of the police of California. What happens if a state passes a law saying that its citizens cannot be forced to buy health insurance? What can Washington do? It can persecute individuals, but a state, or thirty states, are another thing. The FBI can arrest any one person, but it cannot arrest Wyoming. …

“At bottom, Washington’s power is economic.”

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