[JManc]

But the EU is not federal state and some of the pushback they are getting is due to many forgetting they are dealing with actual sovereign countries and not states. Rational people in Texas don't bitch about their federal income taxes paying for some federal program in Maryland...because the money is still within our borders. Taxes levied by the local governments winding up out of states or in other jurisdictions is a separate argument. I don't want my school taxes to pay for some high school football stadium in MD or even the Dallas area.