Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
I'd forgotten that you'd dodged the vertical fiscal imbalance and s 96 of the Constitution....
You should google that and find out its consequences for the Commonwealth's practical power.
The only reason that I hadn't responded to that is that it is as utterly inane as the nationhood power you were touting. The notion that a Federal government is going to coerce state compliance during a public health crisis via withholding funding is ridiculous. For starters it would fail to pass the Senate, you know that arm of the legislature known as 'the States' House'. Same applies to Section 96.
It's just another version of a unicorn, very pretty in imagination but does not exist in the real world.
That sort of nonsense would only get a run in the sort of authoritarian state that most rail against. Or are you happy with authoritarianism just so long as those in authority do what you want?