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Listen, I'm in no mood tio suffer fools tonight, so if you're going to be a jackass, go elsewhere.

Now, answer the damned question...

Show me how the Feds have usurped the State's right to regulate transportation by urging the enactment, and incentivizing of this potentially money (and life) saving legislation.

Well, you're starting to get a little testy, but that's OK, that keeps things interesting. Anyway, I thought I had already made the point pretty well, but since it's not getting through, I'll cut you a break and put it in terms that even you can understand.

If I were to take your money from you, and say that you can only have it back when you do things the way I want you to - all while calling it an "incentive" - I suppose you'd consider that an imposition onto your life.

The federal government is doing the same thing to the states. It has no money that it can legitimately call its own personal property. All the money it has it has taken by force. So it's speaking in highly dishonest language to call it a mere "incentive" when it says to those whom it's taken money from that they can only have it back when they've made certain changes to their behavior. It is absolutely no different from directly requiring such changes through the force of law.

Show me how the Feds have usurped the State's right to regulate transportation by urging the enactment, and incentivizing of this potentially money (and life) saving legislation.

Presently? Or in the past 20 years? The national government usurped the right of the respective states under the leadership of DOT Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole when the first seat belt law was forced upon 2/3rds of the states