Giving states the ability to tax more without an additional burden on their population shifts the onus of supporting that population from the federal to the sta

Giving states the ability to tax more without an additional burden on their population shifts the onus of supporting that population from the federal to the state government. The state can have a higher tax rate without an overwhelmingly high tax rate on its citizens, and can thereby have enough revenue to provide services without federal aid (that the same revenue would have paid for, just indirectly through the federal government first). >That argument is contingent on certain linear utility curves that are probably not empirically borne out. Just because price elasticity isn't linear doesn't mean that price changes have no effect on demand.