Employers and employees are the ones paying those taxes. If this could work at all, it’d only be taxes from businesses that don’t cross state lines. And I suspect feds would raid even those and arrest the owners.
And unfortunately there’s a long history of this, like denying interstate highway funds to states that wouldn’t raise the drinking age.
if the federal government can condition federal funds this way, then states can condition their states contribution to federal taxes
Employers and employees are the ones paying those taxes. If this could work at all, it’d only be taxes from businesses that don’t cross state lines. And I suspect feds would raid even those and arrest the owners.
And unfortunately there’s a long history of this, like denying interstate highway funds to states that wouldn’t raise the drinking age.