The current problem with funding medicaid family planning services described in Government to cut Texas women's health funds in abortion dispute illustrates why I believe that federal spending should be direct, rather than through funding programs administered by states:
"Some 130,000 low-income Texas women who get free exams and contraceptives through Medicaid could lose those benefits...."
The jurisdiction that imposes taxes should spend the funds raised, not disburse them to another governmental unit to administer and spend.