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unmoletoday at 6:40 AM1 replyview on HN

This only works if you pretend fiscal transfers aren't a thing.


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AnthonyMousetoday at 7:14 AM

If you want to paint an abstraction layer on top of it then all you have to do is make it symmetrical. The federal government is extracting money from the state's tax base that would otherwise be available to the state and conditioning its return on doing something, which is a financial penalty against the state for not doing it.