Tomorrow. John one state may ban plastic bags, but how good are cloth bags . This one from walmart leaked like a sieve. Chicken may comfort more because a ballot measure may ban the cages. How would you like to live that way . Want to get out . Yes replacing and repealing obamacare. Im not going to let anybody repeal it and were not going to start over. John who wins that battle will depend on the congressional election. We look beyond the big ticket. Thats our show tonight. Announcer and now, john stossel. John four days until election day, hillary is almost certainly going to be our next president. I trust the people to put their money where their mouths are, the gambleers and certain its going to be hillary for the next four years. Or eight . Please, tell me no. Fortunately theres more at stake than just the presidency this tuesday. Who controls congress matters. The betting odds predict the republicans keep control of the house but lose the senate but the senate odds are close. A Republican Senate kept president obama from appointing another Big Government justice to the Supreme Court. Next term, who knows . Youve heard much of this before, tonight we go beyond the big ticket and focus on hotbutton issues in the bottom of the ballot. The feds dont control everything. State decisions matter, too. Some later go national. James madison wrote the powers delegated by the constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the state governments are numerous. Lately the feds have been grabbing more power from the states, but still tuesday, voters in a bunch of states get to make decisions about taxes, pensions, health care, legal marijuana, animal welfare. Lets start with that. Massachusetts votes on whether to force farmers to give animals more room to move around. Heres part of the humane societys ad encouraging people to vote yes. Want to get out . Yes let me out no animal should have to live like that. John yeah, looks cruel. And polls show most people support the new restriction in massachusetts, but Terry Anderson says most people dont think it through. Anderson works for property and Environmental Research center. What do you mean they dont think it through, its cruel to the animals . Most see the alternative as henne penny moving across the farm yard in alternative setting, and larger scale but pennedup animals and most people dont think about the fact, if we ban these things, were going to have more expensive food in the supermarkets. John california passed a similar law last year and egg prices increased 22 . And who does that hurt . Not the Animal Rights activists who are wealthy and can afford to protest, but it hurts the people at low end of the income spectrum. John cage free doesnt necessarily mean a better life for the animals. This undercover video shows birds suffering at one farm that gave them more room to roam. Cage free, starving birds, tearing one another to pieces. Oh, my god. John if he gives the animals more room, they have more room to fight, there is sometime cannibalism. Absolutely, pecking at one another and chasing each other around the way animals do all the time. John voters in california tuesday will decide whether to ban most Plastic Grocery bags. Proponents say the bags pollute, and too many people are bag monsters like this ridiculous protester trying to illustrate. Ban the bags ban the bags now polls show 45 of voters support the ban. Stores would be required to charge ten cents for recycled compostable bags. Whats wrong with that . I think the first thing that voters need to understand is that stores love these. Think about what is the highest margin john lobbying for this mission . Of course, they get on sell a bag for ten cents, they cant sell it for any less, cant compete by selling it less, and a bag that cant cost them a penny. John proponents say it will reduce litter, protect the oceans, protect wildlife. Start with the oceans, there is plastic in the oceans but its not from the plastic bags that people take groceries home in. Its from nets and fishing gear thats out there. But more importantly, it doesnt really help the environment. Plastic is thin, its cheap, its effective, its clean. John Consumer Reports magazine supports a switch to reusable bags, im not surprised, they usually support government mettling, but honest enough to retest reusable bags. Testers poured one tablespoon of milk into each bag. This one from wall mark leaked like a sieve. Another bag had a different problem. With this back, the milk doesnt leak through the bag but absorbed into the lining. John now they all say wash your bags so you dont have that problem, but nobody does think e. Coli, salmonella, those are the things that lurk in those bags that people take to the store over and over again. John and tests have found that its really a bigger danger to your family. Way, way more. In San Francisco following the bag ban, there was a 46 increase in emergency room visits due to salmonella, e. Coli and other bacteria. So its not a free lunch. John and people dont wash them. If you use them, do wash them, its like poison in there. Pak, Terry Anderson from perk. Now look at the Energy Issues on the ballot. Washington state wants a tax on carbon and they use kids to sell it. All that gas and oil just going lead up to more problems. Its going to get much hotter. I know that the ice is nothing. You can see like all these storms that are happening. John actually all these storms arent happening. The number of storms is not historically unusual, but, look, Global Warming may become a real threat. Energy policy specialist james taylor says if you want to try to reduce our contribution to Global Warming, this is not one of the worst ways to do it . No, if you want to reduce Carbon Dioxide emissions, the way washington is attempting to do so makes sense. Market mechanisms are left in place. John in washington state. Right. And taxes are returned to the people by lowering other taxes. John theyre going to lower the sales tax. Right. Trading off much of the revenue collected. John but even if every state did this, it would have minuscule or no effect on overall Global Warming. Whats the point . You are ripping off the taxpayer . Im with you on that, john f. You feel the need to do so, if you want to reduce Carbon Dioxide emissions, this is a way thats less harmful than others. Its a decent compromise if you go down the road. John much of the environmental left doesnt support it which may be why its only 45 . Why wouldnt they support it, you think they would . This is a beautiful example whats going on politically. What you have is the environmental left is upset that government is not keeping all this extra taxes are being collected so they are opposing the reduction in Carbon Dioxide emissions which they say is the greatest crisis facing humanity because it doesnt grow government enough. John because theyre given the money back to taxpayers in another form . Right, given a choice between saving the environment and growing government, theyll choose growing government every time. John washington is another ballot measure offering tax breaks for electric cars. Environmentalism is more than just miles per gallon. You have the process of making the batteries for the electric cars. You have the components that are going into the batteries, so lithium, the ion, you have to mine for those, mine for rare earth metals. These are extremely damaging environmental processes. Its not clear this is environmentally beneficial it. Might be a net environmental harm. John electric cars not the magic antipollution machine that people think they are. Especially when plugging in charging sockets, you are drawing off from power plants. Power plants are not emissions free, especially if youre in a coal friendly state. John most of americans electricity comes from coal, almost, maybe not in washington. The second leading source. In washington, the majority is hydro. It makes sense if you want to reduce emissions in washington. John on a positive note, nevada may do something good and the 21st century and the free market, they want to abolish the century old, outdated electric utility monopoly. Question 3 lets you choose your energy provider. John so 61 of people in nevada support that. The opponents say this hasnt reduced prices in other states. It certainly has. Texas which has deregul eyed the entire industry, their electricity prices have decreased 19 this decade. Nationally electric prices are up. John its texas, they have cheaper natural gas and oil. Actually texas has Renewable Power mandates that mandate expensive wind power. The fact theyre reducing prices is more remarkable given that. John i was surprised that unions oppose this measure, and the Culinary Union even. I understand there are some unionized workers working for the state power monopoly, but unions just automatically against every good idea if it involves competition . Shame if thats the case. Congratulations to the Solar Industry and the casinos in nevada. Those are the folks behind the measure. Rather than get a carveout for themselves, this Ballot Initiative would give all consumers throughout the state the choice of electricity providers and right now the proof is envy energy, the states primary government protected utility monopoly is overcharging customers tens of millions of dollars every year. This would return that to the people. John why would they overcharge . Theyre for the people. Thats what they say. We have a government protected monopoly. Nv energy doesnt have to cut cost. There are other utilities literally begging to do so and quoting lower prices. John its legal for them to do it unless this passes . Thats correct. John thank you, james taylor of the new foundation he started, the spark of freedom foundation. Whats that . Very excited about that. We are presenting Free Market Energy choices and make sure they are environmentally sound. John coming up, colorado votes on a truly stupid idea. Universal health care. Theres only one industrialized democracy that doesnt provide health care for everybody. And thats the worlds richest country, the United States. John so will colorado go beyond obamacare . But next, 18 states vote tuesday and what to do about sin, like weed and cigarette smoking and porn stars who dont wear condoms. John politicians love taxing sin, it lets them claim a moral high ground. Were raising money for the public by punishing sin. Tuesday, 14 states vote on measures that will supposedly limit sin or raise money from it. All the states have ballot measures along those lines. Politicians say sin tax will reduce the amount of sin and the amount of money will pay for wholesome things like education. Nick gillespie, editor in chief of reason magazine say it creates nasty unexpected side effects. Absolutely. John like what . The classics say is prohibition, by driving products created organized crime. John fewer people may smoke, you are helping people . Well, it depends what you define as helping people. With Something Like tobacco where theres a medical consensus its bad for you, its one thing when you talk about marijuana, its less harmful than alcohol in many ways. John that came up in social media. I asked you beside the president ial race what else matters november 8th. There are about nine states voting on the legalization of marijuana, and, yes, there are, and this horrifies prohibitionists. Probcision 64 will allow marijuana smoking ads and on programs with millions of children and teenaged viewers. Children could be exposed to ads promoting marijuana gummi bears. John kids are going to be exposed to marijuana gummi bears. States like colorado, even reasons own drug policy researcher had a bad experience with an edible. You dont base laws on adults predicated on the possible effects on children. If that was the case, we would have no drugs, no booze, we would have no anything. John supporters of legal weed funded ads narrated by the rapper jayz. Disproportionately black and latinos, epic fail. John epic fail. Seems like the ad is a stupid epic fail but its true that we lock up so many more people now. More arrests for marijuana than anything else in the country. In many states decriminalized. John anything else in the country . Yeah, to be caught with marijuana, thats the biggest category of arrest around the country. We have the chart that shows since the war on drugs how much incarceration rates have gone up, and as jayz said its disproportionately nonwhite. Absolutely, thats one of the outcomes of black markets is that you push the black market activity into areas where people have less money and less control over their neighborhoods. John beyond weed, tuesday four states vote on raising tobacco taxes. In missouri 17 cents a pack to 77 cents. A special new fund dedicated exclusively to Early Childhood health and education. John a special fund for Early Childhood education. You can argue against that . Im going to start smoking so i can contribute even more tax money to it. Thats an old dodge about vice taxes. We are sin taxes. Were taking this from things people shouldnt be doing and giving it to the elderly, giving it to poor kids, to schools. The fact of matter is government funding is fungible, its going in the same place. How many times have we been told a tax or lottery would mean more money for education. Have our schools been improved . Doesnt keep a lockbox for dollars in the communities, creates a slush fund for politicians. We can always be taxing things more and spending more but never settle the accounts in a Cost Effective way. John with the cigarette tax increases, were getting close to the unintended consequence that you got from prohibition. More crime and not so much in missouri where theyre raising it to 77 cents. In new york city here, its 5. 85 a pack, and you had that incident where the cops put a chokehold on a guy, killed him. The reason he was being hassled by them is he was selling lucys. Right, thats what you get when you say were going to use cigarette taxes, a horrible vice nobody likes, were going to tax the hell out of that in order to pay for whatever slush fund we need. John another vice government wants to regulate is porn. Californias proposition 60 will require porn stars to wear condoms and require porn producers to renew a license every two years and inform the government every time they want to film a scene. Heres why they claim this is necessary. I got hiv. And thousands like me get serious diseases because of unprotected sex on porn films. Protect workers. You dont want to protect workers. The next step is for the politician business to notified of sexting. Theyll say i have to witness it in person to make sure everything is aok. This is government overreach. Completely. The porn industry will regulate itself pretty well and actually does in terms of testing actors and what not. When you say they already do, they wouldnt get actors. Exactly. And what california is doing is driving Economic Activity out of the areas whaushgs see are people leaving the San Fernando Valley which is one of the great epicenters of the porn industry for other places, and it doesnt increase safety. Thats the point. John more rules because politicians say its our job to discourage sinful, harmful behavior, but i think john stewart mill had it right. He wrote society influences more tyranny than political per situations, since it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating more deeply into the details of life. When youre arresting 500,000 or Million People for simple possession of marijuana, thats a lot of force and disrupts peoples lives, and we for a Better Society when we have more people defining what they want to do as long as theyre not to invoke another mill principle. Theyre not hurting other people. John thank you, nick gillespie. Massachusetts, rhode island and new jersey vote on whether to expand legal gambling, but to legalize only state run gambling and in rhode island, 61 of the revenue from video slot machines will be kept by the state. State sanctioned gambling is always a bad bet but governments are really going to screw you in rhode island. Surprised politicians stop at gambling if they tax the deadly sins, why not all the deadly sins . Can you name them . From the old testament. Pride covetness, lust, anger, gluttony, sloth. I guess most of those would be hard to tax. And politicians fill with pride, envy and lust, and they dont want to tax themselves. Next, a politician with libertarian views who might actually win. I hope the days come easy and the moments pass slow and each road leads you where you want to go if its cold outside show the world the warmth of your smile but more than anything more than anything my wish for you is that this life becomes all that you want it to your dreams stay big, your worries stay small you never need to carry more than you can hold and while youre out there gettin where youre gettin to i hope you know somebody loves you and wants the same things too yeah, this is my wish this is my wish. John who will control congress is a big issue . Millions are spent to win congressional seats, 9 or 10 million on one house seat from upstate new york. See that guy with a camera . Hes following congressional candidate martin babinec. The democrats paid for Research Even though the opponent is running as an independent. Why are we being filmed . The Democratic Party of the state of new york is impressed by your ability to form a third party. John Opposition Research on a thirdparty candidate is very unusual but happening because this candidate might actually win. The Cook Political Report classified district as a tossup. The upstate jobs party might win . Hes martin babinec, congratulations. So the upstate jobs party, but you are really libertarian . I am a believer in doing things differently. I dont fit neatly in either the democratic box or the republican box. Im a believer in free market principles. John you wont run as a libertarian, why not . Because my platform on jobication is the central message, and i have a very specific plan how to do that, that plan is resonating with voters. What happens in political world is politicians say were going to create jobs by taking your tax dollars and giving it to big corporations to attract businesses to come and open up some plan. Theyve been doing it for decades. It doesnt work and they still keep doing it. John im not getting, it whats the plan for your district . The plan is to bring our resources together that right now dont collaborate. Thats the reason, firsttime entrepreneurs find it too hard to meet the people who can help them. Over the last six years, weve helped create through our nonprofit more than six seed Capital Funds that have invested in the new Industry Companies that laid the foundation for thousands of jobs. John without tax money. Without tax money, a private sector solution instead of relying on tax dollars to jump start job growth. John republicans and democrats dont like outsiders. Martins Campaign Manager says they tried to keep him off the ballot. Weve been attacked by both sides, sued. They tried to invalidate our signatures. At every turn republicans and democrats worked hard to keep me off the ballot. John suing you . Ive been sued and they tried to remove our ballot from appearing as the upstate jobs party line. John so far you have won, youre on the ballot. Were on the ballot, and it has been a struggle. John you started a company before you were a politician, trinet that helps people try to navigate the bureaucracy to create businesses. Our government keeps passing laws that make it harder and harder for businesses just to create jobs and manage their workforce, yes, this is what we do is help Companies Navigate through that. Heres a commercial from his old company it. Encourages entrepreneurs who take risks. Ceos are born with remarkable traits. After all, steering a business isnt for the faint hearted. Meet trinet. You think they would get out of the way of entrepreneurs . They dont because the idea of passing laws that have some stated social purpose seems like a good idea. It seems like its a way they can get reelected and few people understand it takes away from the resources they need to hire more employees and create more growth. John thank you, martin babinec. Coming up, a huge issue, something that trump and clinton never bring up. You may not get the pension money youve been promised. But tuesday in some states can you vote for a person who might protect your money. Livin in this crazy world so caught up in the confusion nothin is makin sense for me and you weve got to give a little love have a little hope make this world a little better a free online resource for wthe parents of the 1 in 5 kids with learning and attention issues. Here youll get personalized recommendations, practical tips, daily access to experts and more. Go from misunderstanding to understood. Org. John one vote tuesday could have more effect on your life than all the ballot measures put together. Many of you will vote for a state comptroller. Just hearing the word comptroller puts me to sleep but this position is important. Trillions are at stake. Your retirements at stake. This womans angry because her husband worked for the city of pitchard, alabama for 32 years, he held up his end of the bargain but the city hasnt sent a pension check. City council says we dont have the money. Accountant warned you will run out of money by 2009. The politicians did nothing. As they admit today. Never changed. Nothing never was accomplished. John the town went broke. We want our money thats happened in a bunch of towns and about to happen in whole states. Here are some of the states in the worst shape. You work for any of these states . Think you will get your pension. Dream on. All the states promise workers gazzilions but they dont have the money and arent close to getting the money. Most will have to tell retirees, too bad. We dont have your retirement money. Illinois owes retirees 200 billion it doesnt have. I want to ask illinois comptroller, the woman responsible for making sure budget promises will be kept, how can you be so irresponsible . She wouldnt return our calls. Neither would most of the politicians in charge in the other worst states. How can they sleep at night knowing workers expect pensions but the politicians spent money elsewhere . At least the comptroller general from the 11th worst state, South Carolina did agree to talk. Hes richard ecstrom. Richard, thank you for being willing to talk about this, but you acknowledge there is a big problem . Certainly is. Its a huge problem of immense proportion. We have a deficit or debt in our retirement system of well over 20 billion, some estimates put it as high as 30 to 35 billion and the state has no real plan in place to cover those costs. Its a massive debt and its one thats occurring at a time when we have other massive needs in the state. John so youve been comptroller general for 12 years. Why havent you solved it . Well, i cant solve it single handedly, i sounded the alarm. Our state has to depend on legal action taken by our General Assembly to solve anything, and our General Assembly has, i think, rather naively but innocently relied on numbers that were just very rosy in their projections of what our liabilities might be. John lets talk about that. South carolinas Employee Benefit authority says you promised workers 20 billion more than you have. 20 billion. But even that estimate is kind to you because it assumes your state investment will grow by 7. 5 a year. Right. John are you making that money . No, certainly not. I project that liability is closer to 31, 32 billion. John that assumes you will make 5 a year. Im not making 5 on my money. It does. No, i dont make 5 on any investments. John how can you make these assumptions with pension money, and its not just your state. All the states do this. Its very irresponsible to do that and to continue to do it and the General Assembly was very reluctant to lower that rate because lowering that rate, that assumed rate of return. John hints to the public that you dont have the money, then youd be 100 billion in debt. Our state has continued to hold onto this, this hope. John 7 , 8 . Im making maybe 1 . The most we could find from a Bank Interest rate around new york was 1 . Sure. John in your state on our investment portfolio last year, we earned negative. 4 . We can tweek the investment portfolio and move to different classes of investments. Were not going to get to 7. 5 . John but bureaucrats assume that. In your state retirement brochure, you tell workers its important to start planning for a secure financial future but the politicians didnt. Liability has to be settled. Debt has to be paid off. There is no way to get around that. And the testament, there is no fault to them for how the plan has been managed. The plan has not been managed well. John so whats going to happen . Are you going to stiff the workers . You cant legally do that. Cant do that. John but you dont have thein. Cant legally and morally do that. John you dont have the money to pay them. Were a growing state. John if everybody leaves South Carolina, probably still wont pay for it. Some people say were a tobacco state, we ought to issue state employees free cigarettes, as many as they can consume, as fast as they can consume them. I dont think its a compassionate idea and one that i cant support. I think that General Assembly has to decide as a matter of priority that this debt has to be liquidated. The plan has to be made whole. The General Assembly has about 8 billion a year to work with from its general fund, which is the general tax receipts of the say the, that it can put into one thing or another. It can build parks in the individual legislative districts, they can build post offices, walking trails, bike paths. Those are nice things to have, but you dont invest in those things when you have a hemorrhaging public Pension System like we have in South Carolina. John and, again, youre not the worst. Ten other states are worse than you. Thank you for coming onto talk about it. I should point out three states have been responsible about pensions. Wisconsin, oregon and south dakota have zero pension debt. Good for them next, obamacare isnt bad enough for you . Tuesday colorado gets to vote whether to impose complete governmentrun health care. Theres only one industrialized democracy that doesnt provide health care for everybody. Thats the worlds richest country, the United States. Obamacare is a disaster. You know it, we all know it. John it must be. Even bill clinton agrees with him. We got this crazy system lined up with the premiums doubled and coverage cut in half. Its the craziest thing in the world. John yet his wife our likely next president says she wants to expand it. Im not going to let anybody repeal it, and were not going to start over. John thats another reason why the battle for congress matters. Michael cannon, director for Health Policy at cato obsesses over Health Policy all the time. Whats at stake tuesday . Well, it looks like Hillary Clinton, at this point is the favorite to win, and the republicans keep the house, that means well have a stalemate. John so no repealing anything. Well, obamacare premiums are going to keep increasing and the coverage for sick people at obamacare is getting worse and worse. The second part of what bill clinton said is the most important part. Obamacare penalizes insurance companies. Those plans lose money and exiting the markets and the coverage for those who remain offered by those who remain is getting worse and worse. The question becomes what do they do . Something is going to have to get bad enough that somebody caves. And we dont know whos going to cave but suggest to you this, if Hillary Clinton lives in the white house, shes living in the white house with someone who lived there before and compromised with congress, and if she wants to get reelected, that might be a way to moderate her image and sail into reelection if she does compromise the republicans and obamacare. John and repeals part of it or all of it . Well, its hard to know. Hard to imagine. Hard to imagine what theyre going to come up with. She will be getting advice by somebody whos been there before. John what if the Democrats Win Congress . Obamacares problems are going to keep mounting. What Hillary Clinton is going to say we need a governmentrun plan to solve all the problems and opponents wont notice or focus or attack all the bad stuff she wants to do to bail out obamacare and may get some of that passed. In colorado, they ginned up a ballot measure that would create colorado cares. Because obamacare isnt enough. Even if that law works perfectly as designed, its still going to leave 31 Million People uninsured. John colorado proposes to do more, provide Government Run Health Care for everyone in colorado. I would think it would be popular, but its not favored to win. All sorts of Government Run Health Care programs are popular until you pay for them. They tried colorado care in vermont. They called it Green Mountain care. John Bernie Sanders loved this. Single payer plan, and of this 7 billion plan, you and i were going to pay for 5 billion of it. John the federal tax. The federal government. Taxpayers and states were going to pay for threequarters of it. Then when it came time to pay for the other 2 billion. John the one quarter that vermont had to pay itself. It would have taken 11 payroll tax and they said forget it. Single payer, much like obamacare is popular until people have to pay for it. Thats why the exchanges are unraveling is because nobody wants to pay for it. John the proponents say the rest of the world does this, why cant we . You know, we already have socialized medicine in the United States. We have every brand of socialized medicine in the United States, from the Veterans Health administration weve got a system like the uks National Health service, a totally topdown government run system, weve got employers sponsored insurance like the german system, medicare is like the canadian medicare system, weve got it all here. And our government made different decisions and we get a different set of awful outcomes. High spending and wasteful care where other nations get a lot of rationing, they dont produce the innovations that we produce and what i would like to see is one nation, hopefully this one, go a different way. John a free market way . Go the way of free markets, give the money that were spending on health care to the people the system is supposed to serve. The patients, and let them decide how to spend that money. John thank you, michael cannon of the cato institute. Up next, my small supermarket offers a zillion types of tomato sauce. Fire roasted, what the heck is that . John all those choices because all of us are different. We want different things. Politics is one of the few areas of life where we have two choices. Him or her. Why that sucks . Next. Rock guitar yeah rock music you cant do this, you cant deny they feed us lines, but i wont act and all good things will come to pass but the truth is all you have to have and would you lie for it . Cry for it . Die for it . Would you . I believe believe were stil worth the fight youll see theres hope for this world tonight i believe, i believe i believe, i believe vision loss is not something that you feel until it happens. Most people lose their vision from diseases like Macular Degeneration and glaucoma, not at birth. Three million americans have glaucoma, and half dont even know it. Eleven Million People in the United States have Macular Degeneration. So many eye disorders can be treated if caught early. Make a plan today to get your eyes checked. Visit brightfocus. Org to learn more. John i hate this election. Glad it will be over in a few days. Not just that im sick of hillary and donald, though, i am. I hate to conceit that voting decides our entire future. Voting matters, its important to get politics right but so much more to life. Politics is constippated. When politicians make decisions, someone wins but some of us lose. What if supermarks worked that way. Customers could only vote for, say, chicken or fish, and everyone would have to eat whatever got 51 of the vote. That would suck. My small supermarket offers a zillion types of tomato sauce. Sicilian gravy, fire roasted. What the heck is that . All those choices because all of us is different. We want different things. Politics is the only area of life we get two choices, thats why its a good thing most decisions are made outside politics. When government must make decisions its better locally, closer to the problem. Donald trump understands that one size doesnt fit all. I lived in new york city in manhattan all my life, okay . My views are different than if i lived in iowa. John maybe different than most of us on earth. But my point is its dangerous to give too much power to president s and our National Government because when they pass a bad rule, everyone is stuck with it. Prohibition was a bad example of a national rule. The gmen smashed bottles and created organized crime. They didnt stop people from drinking, there is not less drunkenness but more. Not less crime but more. Eventually people woke up and repealed prohibition, only after 13 years of violence. Thats why its better to allow states to experiment, and many states will experiment tuesday with repealing marijuana prohibition. States are a Good Laboratory for experimentation. If something works in colorado, other states can try it. Women first got the vote in wyoming, gradually, other states followed suit. The freedom to marry is finally the law of the land [cheers] gay marriage was legalized in individual states. Maine, maryland, washington. That encouraged other states. 37 legalized gay marriage before the Supreme Court finally made it legal nationwide. Rule making at the state level allows you to move if you dont like something, allows you to have say in policies that directly affect you. Youre closer to the decision makers. President s keep grabbing more power. This election especially reminds us we dont want to let them make all the big decisions. Its good we have state initiatives and local initiatives and the free market. Most of the best ideas dont come from our president s or from washington, d. C. Thats our show. See you next week. York. Kennedy will the silent majority sweep donald trump into the white house . Some suggest Hillary Clinton might be the one with the under cover support. If ed mcmullin wins utah he could be a possible spoiler and disrupt the election. Bill weld said what . He had some interesting words about his feeling for Hillary Clinton. Politics is a hell of a drug. As we have grown addicted to main lining election drama