Even more laughable are the talking heads out there that are saying that Trump is bullying the states using federal aid. No, he isn’t. Trump wasn’t alive in 1914 when the states were put onto welfare.
This is the media trying to have it both ways.
When Obama wanted the states to do a certain thing, what did he do? Cut their aid.
When Jimmy Carter wanted the states to do a certain thing, what did he do? Cut their aid.
When JFK wanted the states to do a certain thing, what did he do? Cut their aid.
When FDR wanted the states to do a certain thing, what did he do? Cut their aid.
It’s all par for the course with these progressives. They want complete social control over everything you hold dear. And let’s calculate this. We could do great damage to progressivism by repealing state welfare. Which is why you DON’T see anybody in the media saying that it should all be repealed. They just whine that Trump is using state welfare the incorrect way.
Not unless the personal _income_tax_ is repealed as lawful DC would do. Otherwise DC is stealing the states income, reaching right past their sovereign boundary and seizing the property of the state and its citizens.
Any taxation of USAians by DC is lawfully through an bill of apportionment which DC sends to each state. Its citizens are immune to direct DC taxes.
Does there remain any lawful law in DC?