Frankly Scarlett, any tax proposal that lends any legitimacy to individual citizens of Sovereign states sending money directly to Washington D.C. bypassing the environment provided by the state they live in that provides the climate and conditions fostering their ability to earn a living, should be dead on arrival. The States literally gave up the ghost when they bought in to that idea.
To be clear, no State should allow it’s citizens to send any money directly to D C. All tax money should flow first through the state with the requisite money needed for the expressly enumerated items in Section 1 Article 8 of the Constitution spelled out to the penny. If that number what ever it might be exceeds the tax money available to the state after it’s needs are met, Houston we have a problem.
We already have a problem and it is the spending habits of an organization with unlimited cash to spend and little if any controls on the habit. Most if not all of the low population states are what I call welfare States who get more from D C than they contribute in tax dollars sent to Washington. This needs to stop before the donor states get tired of their dollars going for welfare payments to states who do not deserve to be called welfare states. d
oops, in the excitement I got my article and section reversed.