States Decision?

[MichMan]

3. No, we shouldn't distribute government funds based on state or local boundaries like you propose

One could argue with the same reasoning that residents of wealthy suburbs shouldn't be taxed to provide services to people living in poverty in the urban cities.

Why should taxes from residents of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, for example, be used to provide programs for poor people in Detroit ? Let Detroit raise taxes and take care of their own residents, while Grosse Pointe gets to spend all it's own tax dollars. No one would say that would be acceptable, right ?

We tax people based on ability to pay and distribute it in the form of services and payments to those who are eligible, regardless of what city or state they live in. In fact, we usually argue that those in the more wealthy cities and states need to be taxed more, not less.