If government continues to do things with enormous effects on business, they'll just find another way to protect their interests. There's too much at stake to walk away.
He sees this as an opportunity to revamp the entire relationship of the federal government to the region,
You look at the relationship between 50 state sovereigns and the federal government, and the states always come out on the short end of the stick. They've consistently traded autonomy for cash, and they've consistently wound up with neither.
Crises cause government to grow. The test today will be how much of the federal response occurs within the existing boxes or through innovative ways.