All said, I would be more comfortable if this was provided at the state level instead, and federal funds were simply collected to subsidize the states.
I tend to think that the Federal government collecting funds in order to distribute most of it back to the states is simply a way to waste money that should have stayed in the states in the first place. The Federal government should not be in the business of collecting money for state programs. The states can collect their own money with less waste, and they won't be tempted to spend it on things the states didn't actually want in the first place.
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