re: #310 Daniel Ballard

Bring it up all you wish. Sometimes when you disagree there is no answer satisfactory to you. In good faith-One more try. IMHO-In this case and in energy policy and a few others-Sacramento can better deal with the overall circumstances of California generally better than DC.

Ask away, but this one is asked and answered.

No, it’s not. That is not an answer to what I asked. I don’t know if you don’t understand that, but it’s true.

The question is: what is it about a state that makes it a preferable level to another for responding to the needs of citizens? It can’t be, as you asserted, demographics and population, since states vary wildly in that. An argument that Montana is a good level to respond to the needs of its citizens can’t apply to California, with 80 times its population, far more complex infrastructure, and far more variety in everything. By the logic that says Montana is a good level, California can’t be a good level.

States are largely arbitrary borders. They are not created from demographics.