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2010-08-10 13:00:06
Jay
Bork! Bork! Bork!
+2,006|5643|London, England

Turquoise wrote:

JohnG@lt wrote:

ghettoperson wrote:


Same with the drinking age I think.
Yep, they took away Louisiana's highway funding until they raised their drinking age from 18 to 21.
It's basically a lesson in federalism.  For a state truly to be free to make its own policies, it has to become self-sufficient and not dependent on federal funding.
Hence Texas not making themselves dependent by taking the money and instead cutting an equal amount of state funding temporarily. Why do you think I said it was smart on Perry's part?
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
2010-08-10 22:05:48
Turquoise
O Canada
+1,596|6690|North Carolina

JohnG@lt wrote:

Turquoise wrote:

JohnG@lt wrote:


Yep, they took away Louisiana's highway funding until they raised their drinking age from 18 to 21.
It's basically a lesson in federalism.  For a state truly to be free to make its own policies, it has to become self-sufficient and not dependent on federal funding.
Hence Texas not making themselves dependent by taking the money and instead cutting an equal amount of state funding temporarily. Why do you think I said it was smart on Perry's part?
I suppose that's one way of looking at it.  That's not really a measure of being self-sufficient in my opinion though.  If you cut funding in equal amounts to what the feds just gave you, that means you just negated any benefits of having received said funds.

 

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