The Department of Health and Human Services is freezing all childcare payments to all states, an official for Donald Trump’s administration told ABC News in a report published Wednesday. States’ funds will be released “only when states prove they are being spent legitimately”.
Of course, all such services should be paid for from state tax revenues anyway. Shrink the Feds back to being the State Dept and the military.
Make Washington DC a backwater again, not a swamp.
Some states are basket cases. West Virginia for example.
And? West Virginians can figure it out. All this money transfer does is make it worse for WVer’s financially while giving smug Californians justification for trying to tell them what to do.
And they do, despite the fact that CA consumes more federal tax money than they pay in.
Rather than 90% of my taxes going to the federal government to be trickled back to the state government so they can do things that are (and should be) *state-level functions* instead.
At least that way I would not be paying for Somalians a thousand miles away.
When did these Federal subsidies begin, who thought that they were a good idea, and why? You can’t imagine the Gipper approving