Small states don't scale

Stakes high for Collins in coronavirus relief standoff

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), who faces the toughest reelection campaign of her Senate career, is battling her own party over coronavirus relief funding for local and state governments hit hard by the pandemic.
The Maine senator, in a state where President Trump is expected to lose the presidential vote, has co-sponsored a bill that would set up a $500 billion state and municipal recovery fund.
Collins scored a win during the negotiation of the $2.2 trillion CARES Act by co-authoring one of the bill’s most popular components, the small-business lending initiative known as the Paycheck Protection Program, to which Congress added another $320 billion last month.
But delivering another round of aid for beleaguered state and local governments, something which Maine desperately needs, is a tough challenge because of opposition from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and many other Senate Republicans.
“The pressure in Maine for those resources is huge,” said Mark Brewer, a professor of political science at the University of Maine.
He noted that a “huge amount” of Maine’s economy is based on consumer spending, tourism and fishing, which have all suffered because of the pandemic. Summer visitors are staying away and there has been a drop-off in demand from restaurants and overseas markets that buy seafood.

Maine is a larger Vermont, but still cannot scale against the large government programs demanded by New York.  Well denied by the Godotists.

Nice article on revenue sharing.

If the Federal Government Won’t Fund the States’ Emergency Needs, There Is Another Solution

Eventually the Godotists would find this model.  It takes a while to get them out of their talking points.