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It's such a simple concept, yet it has been unfolding for decades.  I was a teenager when I learned schools take money from the Fed Gov.  The dumbest possible thing you could do, guaranteeing that they hold leverage over you.  If a state like Texas had enough balls, it would just say "we accept no federal funds, period."  Poof, no more being beholded to DC dictates.