Nice idea, L3. However, it fails to grapple with the real source of the power & the problem — all the money (for practical purposes) flows through Washington. Even my little itty-bitty County government gets about 3/4 of its funding in the form of grants from State & Federal Governments.

As long as the Federal Government collects the taxes and decides how to distribute revenues, the Feds will be in charge.

How do we do something about that? Could there be a way for the State Governments to take over the tax collection duties of the IRS? Could States require companies and individuals to send their federal taxes to the States for forwarding to the Feds? Once the States have a chokehold on the revenue stream, things would change.