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To: Sonny M
[Still, 17 lawmakers have signed on as co-sponsors, and other legislators said they might be willing to consider such a bill if not for the loss of federal money.]




Aside from the drinking issue, this blackmailing of states by the Federal government is worrisome to me.
11 posted on 04/13/2005 3:14:14 PM PDT by spinestein
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It was worrisome to a lot of us when Reagan let the authoritarians talk him into it in the first place. Now it's standard federal practice to blackmail states with highway funds.


30 posted on 04/13/2005 3:27:56 PM PDT by LibertarianInExile (The South will rise again? Hell, we ever get states' rights firmly back in place, the CSA has risen!)
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