How's Ryan and his followers doing with the recovery efforts? He was gathering the rightwing clan to be super heroes.
So you would have 50 duplicate jobs, one for each state, and most doing nothing most of the time? Nothing like driving the cost up. How about using the old corporate mantra of downsizing, rightsizing and centralizing to save money?
You'll need a federal state bailout agency just to account for state bankruptcies if each state has to run a federally-sized agency.
So why bother having 50 states?