> It'd be economically viable if what I pay in local/state versus federal taxes were flipped. What happens instead is I pay exorbitant federal taxes, then that gets given back to my state/local governments as grants/title X funding with stipulations to fix the roads, etc. At least the taxes I pay to local government I have more direct control of as an individual voter. Instead I'm just funding a massive military and protection of countries overseas and our oil interests.

This is is opposite of how things actually work.

Generally, rural areas are fairly heavily subsidized by urban ones. The more taxes become localized, the less money from urban areas gets funneled to rural ones and the poorer the rural areas become.