Questions:

1. Tyranny of individual states over the central government: What if states had the power to ignore

a federal tax law they did not like?

This could be a problem because:

See explanation.

Explanation:

This would be a severe problem because it would eliminate the Federal Govt's power effectively creating 50 separate governments.

The federal government uses tax laws and funding to force the states to act in certain ways (drinking), if each state could ignore what the federal government says they would be eliminating its power.