[controversy]

Why cut that check to the Feds? They have destroyed schools. Look at the American placement in international tests since the Feds took over in the 1970s. Downhill.

Why have them control health? They've shown they are incompetent with Medicare (look at the waste, fraud, abuse, and anger by doctors due to red tape).

Why not have the States set the wealth tax? Be like Switzerland. The cantons and municipals set the wealth tax.

Ultimately, for me, this entire topic throws into stark relief the fact that the Federal government needs to be brought to heel. It is too large. Too incompetent. Too impossible. Look at the EU (the closest thing in the West to the US by population and economic scope). The EU doesn't set an EU wealth tax. They do not set an EU health service. They set regulatory requirements that the individual countries (from a GDP perspective equal to US States) implement.