Federalism

The 10th amendment of the Constitution states:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

And yet, we see congressional members inserting into bills all kinds of projects that benefit only their own state and often only a single town in their state.

Poor Richard's Rule of Pork is:

"If the Constitution does not require a spending item to be engaged in by the federal government and the state is not prohibited from engaging in that spending item, that spending item MUST be engaged in by the state or not at all." Or, to simply it: "If the State is permitted to do it, the Federal government should not be involved."

Obviously, a museum in Anywhere, USA is not required to be created by federal spending nor is it prohibited by the state from creating it on its own. If the ...