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Posted on: May 2, 2020 at 15:52:50 CT

want. The funds from the government are earmarked toward coronavirus relief. It's not a slush fund or anything like that and it has oversight. Now if they were giving them a ton of money with no instructions on how to use it, then you might have a point. But the article clearly states that the city is having trouble making ends meet right now:

In the meantime, Kansas City is scrambling to find a solution about how it will pay its health and public safety costs at a time when city tax revenues are plummeting.

Also, the states are already hamstrung by what they can do with the money the federal government is sending. The federal government has already said that it can't be used for "revenue replacement". It can only be used to cover pandemic costs. So your assertion that this is incentivizing cities and states is completely false as most of them are going to be having huge budget shortfalls.

http://wvmetronews.com/2020/04/23/treasury-says-states-cant-backfill-budgets-with-relief-dollars-but-justice-says-no-problem/