[lacrew]

I’d like to know why any state is getting ‘federal funding’. Isn’t it just a re-shuffling of the people’s money, with a lot of opportunities for favoritism and graft?

[Texas Eagle]

I’d like to know why any state is getting ‘federal funding’.

Bingo. It's a big shell game.

[jjotto]

The magic of national debt. States can’t print money. The feds can. That means a state CAN get more money from the feds than it could raise itself.