"… and running the risk of a loss of federal [??? emphasis added] funding for certain parts of the state."
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Unless certain parts of California are having problems with the US Mail Service (1.8.7), the mail service being one of the very few domestic powers that the states have expressly constitutionally given to the feds, then California AG Becerra evidently doesn't understand the following.
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Probably most of the federal funding that California and all other states receive is arguably state revenues that Congress has stolen from the states by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices had clarified Congress's limited power to appropriate taxes as follows.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."—Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Regarding unconstitutional federal taxes, note that the Founding States had established the federal Senate partly to kill bills that steal not only state powers, but also effectively steal state revenues uniquely associated with those powers.
The problem is that the Progressive Movement later spooked low-information citizens to pressure their state lawmakers to ratify the ill-conceived 17th Amendment (17A). And state lawmakers not only unthinkingly gave up the voices of the state legislatures in Congress by doing so, but politically repealed constitutional limits on the fed's powers.
As a consequence of 17A, low-information voters are electing senators who evidently don't understand the fed's constitutionally limited power any better than the voters do. So it's no surprise that career lawmakers are unthinkingly wrongly passing vote-winning bills that steal state powers and state revenues.
Getting back to AG Becerra, if he is so concerned about revenues for his state then he needs to do the following.
California needs to work with the other states to support Pres. Trump in leading the states to repeal 17A. (The 16th Amendment (16A) can disappear too.)
After 16 and 17A are repealed then the states will probably find a tsunami of new revenues (higher state taxes) that they won't know what to do with.
For starters, each state can establishing its own custom healthcare and retirement plans, increase funding for public schools, police and fire departments, and also repair infrastructure.
In the meanwhile, patriots need to finish the job that they started when they elected Trump president.
More specifically, patriots now need to be making sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting, state sovereignty-respecting candidates on the 2018 primary ballots, and pink-slip incumbent lawmakers by sending candidate patriot lawmakers to DC on election day.
And until the states wake up and repeal 17A, as evidenced by concerns about the integrity of Alabama's special Senate election, patriot candidates need to win elections by a large enough margin to compensate for possible deep state ballot box fraud and associated MSM scare tactics.
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Someone should sue the idiot AG for being such a moron.