> And they'll continue to be overrepresented in Congress and maintain federal funding formulas that extract money from successful states to subsidize themselves

> And they'll continue to be overrepresented in Congress and maintain federal funding formulas that extract money from successful states to subsidize themselves on account of their failure. Maybe this is something that will have to change. It all does risk bringing us closer to going back to when we were "these untied states" instead of "the untied states" though.