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by mahyarm 4328 days ago
> Now it's just an incentive for lower population states to expand the federal government since they have disproportionate representation in directing who the expansion benefits.

Wouldn't they have the same incentive then?

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> Wouldn't they have the same incentive then?

The incentive was tempered by the fact that state legislators don't like expanding federal power since it interferes with the exercise of their own power.