If a solution can be local, it should be. The reason the US Constitution was so limited in the powers that it gave the Govt was because those powers not listed were to be left to the states. That was what the 10th amendment was all about.
It's been very much ignored over the last 90 years, and that's a shame.
But how are you going to make voters accountable for their votes? That was my initial question and despite all the talk about federalism you have yet to answer...
You can ask all you want, but I didn't claim to have a solution to that problem. It's a fundamental flaw with democratically-based governments.
My droning on about federalism was related, though. Individual Liberty allows people to succeed or fail based upon the decisions they make in life. Economic frameworks built upon individual Liberty like capitalism reward good decisions about how to use your labor and capital while punishing poor decisions.
The best the government can do is to go back to a more Constitutionally supported mandate, taking care of foreign policy, regulating interstate commerce in the sense that the founders wished, and only providing the barest of frameworks within which the free market could operate.
So now you have pushed the problem to the state level. How are voters going to be held accountable for their votes at the state level?