There's even federally mandated shower flow rate [1]. Just leave this shit up to the states.

[1] https://www.waterpik.com/shower-head/blog/shower-head-gpm/#:....

from your link, some states can set lower.

| To conserve resources and save money, some state and local governments mandate even lower GPM flow rates than the federal regulation.

| Examples of national and local regulations include:

| * New York City and the state of Colorado require a maximum of 2.0 GPM

| * California, Washington, and Hawaii require a maximum of 1.8 GPM

would you have states set a min flow rate?

Congress itself is mostly too dysfunctional to micromanage on that level.

I absolutely hate this state rights argument. I for one would gladly support repealing the words the states from the tenth amendment.

States don’t have magical rights. People have rights.

I have a feeling anyone who supports “state rights” would also support the idea of “separate but equal”.

Please do not associate yourself with the hypocrites who are all for state rights until California wants to regulate automobile emissions.

People have rights. And the most straightforward way to cater for these rights is to split people into groups. If 90% of people in Alabama don't want weed legalized, don't force it upon them. Save the vigor for what's really important.

Nothing. Ideally it would be at the federal level so California wouldn't have to do it though.

> If 90% of people in Alabama don't want weed legalized, don't force it upon them.

No. The hypothetical ninety percent of people in Alabama have no right to restrict the rights of the other ten percent. It doesn't affect them. They should stay out of it.

My castle - my rules.

I have close to 100% right to restrict smoking in my home.

I have close to 0% right to restrict smoking on the whole planet.

The boundary is somewhere in between.

The federal government should say things like this is the baseline - you can go one way on it but not the other. Personally, I want more of this, not less. For instance, I want a federal land/property tax that local governments can’t just make go away in a race to the bottom.

I want a federal ban on capital punishment. Meaning no jurisdiction within these United States should have the legal authority to give capital punishment.

Devolving power lower doesn’t solve any problem. It is seriously scary if you’re a minority. And you don’t have to be black or gay to be a minority, you could just be the wrong denomination of Christianity.

From what I’ve read, we used to demonize everyone from the Irish, the Germans, the Italians. Nobody is safe from the tyranny of the majority and the more you devolve power to a local level, the more these problems will grow larger.

Personally the whole point of government is to protect the individual from the whims of the masses. If I want to smoke weed (I don’t but just an example), the rest of the town shouldn’t be able to tell what I can do. What if fifty one percent of a town decides it wants to be “whites only”?

Neither party had total control. Now everything gets fillibustered. You only get around it with 2/3 majority or if you can turn it into a budget-related bill and get it through budget reconciliation.

The Democrats have a majority now and did in 2010. They haven’t even attempted to pass marijuana legalization. I have my theories as to why but they certainly have nothing to do with gerrymandering.

> Key Democrats, including Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), said Tuesday they would work to repeal federal prohibitions on marijuana cultivation and use, vowing to make progress on an issue that has growing public support but still faces sharp objections from most Republicans.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress-schumer-mar...