Wait a minute.... 17th is for direct election of Senators....
Yes about 17th. And while the corrupt House can make unconstitutional appropriations bills that effectively steal state revenues, consider the following.
Until ill-conceived 17th was ratified, the Founding States gave power to vote for senators uniquely to state legislatures. This was so that state lawmakers can elect federal senators who protect state revenues by killing unconstitutional House appropriations bills.
"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.