Spending

The Benevolent Dictatorship of Baja LasVegastan spends money. In this respect it is no different from any other nation.

However, the Benevolent Dictator has noticed two important considerations

First, it is unwise to dictate to a tributary nation – whether denoted as such eo nomine, or as a "province", as a "state", or by some other name – how it shall conduct its internal affairs. The office of a tributary nation is tribute.

Second, a particularly insidious means of dictating to tributary nations is to offer to spend money within their borders (or even to pay money directly to their governments!) – but only to those recipients which have complied with some external requirement (i.e., a requirement other than the use to which the money would be put). In the USA, for example:

• federal highway funds used to be withheld from states which did not impose a 55 mph speed limit on those highways, even though the funds were for construction and not for 55 mph speed limit enforcement; and

• federal research funds are withheld from universities which do stem-cell research, even though the funds are for nuclear physics research and not for stem-cell research.

The Benevolent Dictator therefore has imposed the following limitation upon his front organization, the Congress, in the form of a proviso in his front document, the Constitution:

1. Congress shall not condition any appropriation of money on anything other than the use to which the money shall be put.
2. Matching grants are permitted, but only if the ratio at which the money is to be matched is not conditioned on anything other than the use to which the money shall be put.