[antidisestablishment]

Follow the money. Fed dollars (stolen from the states) is doled back only if the states tow the line. You can thank Nixon for beginning the Imperial Presidency and most of the egregious alphabet agencies, though Carter birthed the Department of Education.

[GingisK]

All of that would stop if We The Sheeple would merely notify their Congresscritters to affect changes. Alternatively, the Sheeple merely have to replace their Congresscritters.

The Sheeple aren't that interested.