The billions don’t go up in smoke (entirely.) They come back through all kinds of payments to individuals and agencies. Seeing it up to the feds in one bundle will be even easier to justify as a good “investment” when they total up all the payouts to individuals and agencies in the state. It just saves them the trouble of calculating the outflow, which every state gov does anyway. They know the net now. The “return” on the “investment”, of course, will be the ponzied deficit, minus direct federal expenses on overseas defense and foreign aid, just like it’s done now.
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide,
I agree with you that the billions do not go up in smoke. They go to fund pork projects in _other_ States. Any money that comes back to a State from the Federal Government in the form of any sort of benefits must by MATHEMATICAL NECESSITY be less than what the State paid out in taxes. Otherwise there would not be TRILLIONS of dollars of nightmare national debt. Obviously, all those trillions must eventually be paid for by taxpayers. But under the 28th Amendment, the State governments and their financial interests are directly taxed to pay for the trillions in bad promises and wasted pork projects. Every time a State looks at a proposed Federal budget and adds up all the pork projects of the other States COMBINED and does the simple calculation to determine what its portion of the bill to fund those projects will be; that State will then look at the value of the pork project for its State and say, “No fuckin’ wonder the national debt reaches into heaven!” And that’s when the bribery with our future taxpayers’ money (our children’s money) comes to an end. Because State governments will feel the blood blistering pinch immediately.