[jeffc]

Umm . . You know . . I actually kind of agree with this. But only in the context that this is really a States Rights issue. I am for lowering the money the feds collect and disburse from and to us poor citizens, and the states to do their duty.

Look at it from the state view. Are the states saying they don't have to take care of their own because the feds are doing it? If the money has to be filtered throught the feds, you know some is grafted off to some porkbarrel things.

I say the closer the money stays to home, the more power the citizens can exercise over how it's used.

[Tax-chick]

Are the states saying they don't have to take care of their own because the feds are doing it?

Probably. It happens with lots of what should be local or state expenses.

[Future Snake Eater]

I was kind of thinking that myself, but the federal government does NOT hand power back, it confiscates and centralizes. This sounds like a real cut in a worthy program, not a needed decentralization.