[Repeal The 17th]

“...make all expenditures proportional to the state census...”
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I thought about that one time...

Something like this:
“Upon approval, the annual budget, and any supplemental budgets of the United States shall be proportioned annually to each of the several states according to the number of members in the House of Representatives. The manner and method of collection of the annual proportionment shall be determined by each of the several states.”

But what happens when a district does not, can not, or refuses to cough up the bucks?

Do you not let them have representation anymore, or what?

[central_va]

While we are fixing(restoring) the Constitution can we repeal the 16th amendment too ?

[i_robot73]

You seem to believe we have representation currently; I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at that statement.

Now, continuing to dream that this would be Law, you’d have the Senators, who would (hopefully) now be looking out for the States’ interest, balking instead of rubber-stamping on bills knowing their job is on the line.

The States, IMHO, would then start to reign in the abuses of D.C. and actively using the 9th/10th, if not A1S8, to keep from being bled dry.

But, let’s say the State does not have the $$, or pays. I’d think the People thereof would be a might upset about forking over hard-earned $$ for nothing. That to me, would be relief valve #2 to, again, demand a reigning in of D.C. (9th/10th)