California is neither an arm of the federal government nor akin to a country. It is in most ways a subservient and inferior government, owing resources to the f

California is neither an arm of the federal government nor akin to a country. It is in most ways a subservient and inferior government, owing resources to the federal government. That's part of the deal that California got when it joined the union. (in exchange, California gets stuff like a currency and a military) California (the land and the people and the government and every other way you could view it) must pay. Internal use and abuse of funding shouldn't have anything to do with what is owed. When you say that the change was "done plain and simple to own the libs on the coast", you presume that the previous situation was fair. It was not. Those "libs on the coast" were evading taxes, plain and simple. That "6th biggest economy in the world" was doing so well partly because it avoided taxes. That was unjust enrichment at the expense of middle America.