"In Europe, nationalism is a real problem. Within the european union, every state fight to bring more benefit to its own nation rather than looking for the whol

"In Europe, nationalism is a real problem. Within the european union, every state fight to bring more benefit to its own nation rather than looking for the whole union to get better." This is pretty much the case in the United States too, except we call this phenomena "pork barrel legislation" where Congressmen allocate parts of the federal budget for funding infrastructure or other projects in their district at the expense of everyone else. For example, California residents pay way more in Federal income and corporate taxes than they receive in federal funding for schools, infrastructure, etc. Alaska, for example, is quite the opposite and receives a lot more federal money than it pays in federal taxes. This is all due to political dealing in Congress.