The solution is simple and not at all new...stop making the structure so top heavy. The infatuation with making the Federal gov larger and larger, more and more powerful...is great for corporations and corruption...but increasingly it sucks for the rest of us.

Centralization was effective to get out of the Great Depression. It was again effective post WW II when economies of scale worked well. But now? We're a long way from that. We need agility and flexibility. Trying to force feed the square peg of 20th Century one size fits all into 21st Century dynamics round hole isn't working.

I'm not suggesting the fed gov be dissolved. Only that we stop overlying on it and stop feeding it (i.e., taxes).