What’s wrong with the government? Clearly the tenth amendment sheds some light on it:
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.
Our government has overstepped its bounds in relation to this law, but it has happened in a very tricky way. Money. One of the main complaints Republican governors had about the stimulus money was the unemployment part of it. Accepting the unemployment money today held you to certain requirements tomorrow. The same thing goes with DUI laws, accept the .08 limit and get federal money for your roads.
Then there is the other stretches for what is exactly delegated to the United States by the Constitution?
It turns out that includes more and more each year. This non-sense has to stop and states need to stop looking to Uncle Sam for their bailout and start paying their own bills.