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0 pointstarakat3y ago0 comments

We've seen where this leads to in the US, where the federal government financially extorts states to fall in line on issues that are supposed to be up to the states, such as what happened with speed limits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_Sta...

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int_19h3y ago

The difference is that EU member states have the right to leave if they don't think the arrangement benefits them.

tarakatOP3y ago

And we must ensure that choice remains economically viable, and not just for the largest member states. Because a union maintained by compulsion, even economic compulsion, is not a union, but an empire.

humanistbot3y ago

Or a state.

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