States should pay federal taxes out of their own budgets. How the individual states decide to collect that revenue from their residents is up to them. There sho

States should pay federal taxes out of their own budgets. How the individual states decide to collect that revenue from their residents is up to them. There should not be individual taxes paid to the federal government and to state governments which now results in some degree of double taxation due to the elimination of SALT deductions. After all, the people do not choose the President, the states do. Each state has a certain number of electors in the electoral college and they can allocate those electors to the candidates as they see fit. In most states that happens to coincide with state's election in which the popular vote of the state determines all the electors (some states split electoral votes) but it doesn't have to be that way (see National Popular Vote Interstate Compact). Additionally, the Senate does not represent the people, it represents the states. That's why there's huge power imbalances among people in the Senate living in California vs. Wyoming, for example. The supreme court is chosen by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The only branch of federal government chosen by and representing the people is the House. So if the people are not even directly choosing the major branches of the federal government, they should not be directly paying taxes to it.