Comments by "DrScopeify" (@drscopeify) on "Should the EU Become a Federation Like the US?" video.

The Federal system is the best path for Europe, Imagine if Italy wants to make Marijuana legal but Finland does not. The Federal system allows for each to make their own local laws based on local population desires, and also have a unified central Government on top to share resources for better and more powerful military, and decision making, foreign relations, taxation, centralized spending on infrastructure that connects all of the EU together. Imagine if EU was able to collect EU wide taxes and fund big highway expansion to connect EU countries better. Just look at how bad the roads are connecting Czechia to Germany, let alone the rest of the EU, this leads to lack of efficiency, if you want to increase the economic power of Europe the easiest way is to pool resources for common goal to build faster, better connected EU. Less differences of taxes and cross border issues. Open the doors.
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The USA might appear to be fragmented politically but that has nothing to do with the System of Government. For example states with Democrat majority pass local state laws like making Marijuana legal and reducing prison population and Republican states pass laws like ban on abortion for religious reasons or removing regulations, so the system itself is not fragmented it is simply serving the local population. This is by design of the Federal system. If EU was Federal it makes sense that laws in Italy are different than laws in Finland. One maybe has legal Marijuana in the future but the other does not want that. So that is the beauty of a Federal system as it allows regional differences that are much more serious than other systems of Government. Imagine if where you live in your country wants a law to change that the rest of the country does not want to change, if you have majority in your area you live and are Federal, you can change the law locally. It might appear Fragmented from outside, but inside people are happy as they get to have local difference to best serve the population.
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