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good post, you are correct, but one has to remember, there are two "states" - The Republic and the Federal State.

The "Republic of South Dakota" is the People of South Dakota whom are a independent and sovereign people, they have their own state revenues and state expenses to manage themselves. It has a annual tax budget of $2,400,000,000 billion dollars.

The "Federal State of South Dakota" is the federal state, basically the "federal government' which raises federal taxes to fund federal Departments, Offices, Agencies, Administration, and Services. It has a annual budget of nearly $3,000,000,000 billion dollars.

Now, it is true, as a "republic" the People of South Dakota can also submit requests to the U.S Treasury to obtain federal grants and monies where they wish. These funds would be separate from the "Federal State"

Since 1871, when they "incorporated" the District of Columbia aka UNITED STATES, they created the administrated deep state, while in 1874 created a separate municipal government in D.C which now 'acts' as one large territory which has since incorporated all 50 Federal States as one.

This has blurred some of the jurisdictional boundaries making many to believe the two are one.

From 1789-1860, we only had the State, Treasury, War, Interior, Post Office at teh Federal Level. WE agreed to allow federal enclaves in the our republic, but the federal monies stayed in the U.S Treasury to run those federal offices.

But today, the U.S Treasury deposits federal money in the State Treasuries who now act as contractors to manage certain "federal programs and services" which blinds the two all together.

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