This is actually a 17th Amendment problem. Please bear with the following explanation.
First, note that the Supreme Court has historically clarified that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
“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.
The consequence of Gov. Deal’s evident ignorance of the Constitution and its history is this. He does not understand that probably most of the federal funding that he is getting on his knees for should never have left his state in the first place.
So how did the feds wind up with Georgia’s money?
Note that the Founding States had not only established the federal Senate, but had given the power to vote for senators uniquely to state lawmakers. The idea was that senators were to protect their states in Congress by killing bills that not only stole state powers, but also stole state revenues associated with those powers.
The problem is that misguided voters demanded the right to vote for federal senators. And state lawmakers caved in and ratified the 17th Amendment, foolishly giving up their voices in Congress by doing so.
And now, as a consequence of the 17th Amendment, low-information voters go home after voting for their favorite senators and watch football, clueless to the following major problem. Their corrupt senators are working in cahoots with the corrupt House to pass unconstitutional appropriations bills which the Supreme Court excerpt above clearly indicates that Congress cannot do.
And what’s worse is that the corrupt Senate then confirms activist justices who declare that the unconstitutional appropriations laws that they helped the House to pass are constitutional.
What a racket!
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear.
“The consequence of Gov. Deal’s evident ignorance of the Constitution and its history is this. He does not understand that probably most of the federal funding that he is getting on his knees for should never have left his state in the first place. “
No chit Chirlock.