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The States are worthless too - most of them.
And we have the Federal structure we do because the principles of inter-state dealings underlying the post Revolutionary War Articles of Confederation were fundamentally flawed in practice. But the Founders would be astonished and dismayed to see the size and scope of the current Federal Government and bureaucracy.
There’s a whole lotta housecleaning to be done at every level of government. POTUS needs to start the process, but it’s probably a decade + long project.
Who would do it, though, because everyone makes out like bandits under the system we have now…