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red sox 777 posted...

That's the sticking point - these blue states want a lot of money they can spend with no oversight. California has blown the highest tax revenues of any state in the Union building.......prisons? I feel like CA has just about the WORST infrastructure of any state, the slowest courts, the slowest DMVs, the highest traffic, a lot of the worst schools (and some of the best), state universities that charge tuition like private schools, and extremely high incarceration rates.

I do not want the Federal government giving CA any more money when they've proven to be totally incompetent at using it. Would much prefer the Feds directly handle the situation.

How good or bad a job any state has been at managing its budget (or whatever) is completely irrelevant. This money is a reimbursement for the states covering the Federal government's responsibility in dealing with COVID since Trump totally abdicated responsibility. They should never have had to incur those costs in the first place, and the government not making them whole will further devastate states' economies as they're forced to enact heavy austerity. This isn't just a blue state thing, either. Lots of red states have been hit hard by COVID and should be bailed out as well.

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