sameech
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For me, block granting is NEVER a solution. That is something that completely destroys the power of the state and transfers it to the federal government. If we are allocating x dollars per person and taxing x dollars per person the real and practical solution is simply to have that state tax those dollars and collect rather than the federal government.
It seems asinine that the feds tax monies from state residents and then return those same monies back to the state take out the middle men.
The federal estate tax largely is an efficient block granting system, or at least it was until the GOP started tinkering with it to the point that states have been looking at opting out. It was a very efficient system for years to collect the money at a single point and disperse it accordingly as opposed to having estates have to to deal with multiple estate tax regimens as high value estates tend to sprawl over multiple jurisdictions.