Yup its done wrong. The individual states should collect constitutionally appropriate taxes and then in turn fund the federal government to carry out its mandates such as regulating interstate commerce, protecting borders, etc. and nothing further.
The FedGuv should not be collecting taxes from state citizens directly and then doling it out back to the state governments with strings attached, having wastefully spent much in the process.
Taxation without representation is when the government forces you to pay for something you don't want, you didn't ask for, you don't support, and very often it is something you strongly oppose. For example, public education, social security, foreign wars and medicare.
That other socialist definition of "taxation without representation" that everyone learns from the socialist public education system is one of the biggest scams ever perpetrated upon humanity.
People should be able to decide on an individual basis whether or not they want to pay for and/or use a government service. A government should never force anyone to pay for, support, or use a government product or service they don't want it agree with.
