And the Feds will withhold highway funds until they comply.
Game over.
States have zero independence now.
.......The Wisconsin governor, who recently survived his recall election, said he is not going to implement the health care law right now.
“We’re going to wait. We said all along there was a legal step, there’s a political step and after each of those steps were exhausted we see what the future holds,” Walker said, noting that the election is crucial to the future of health care policy.
“The only chance to repeal that is to put in place a new president, a new Senate majority, and then ultimately repeal the law,” Walker said.
Walker said he “learned” from Romney’s example in Massachusetts: “In the case of Wisconsin, we learned looking at that state, Massachusetts is a good example, we learned from what we found from our actuarial assessment that we did this past year that it was not a good measure for the state of Wisconsin,” Walker said.
The governor added: “We think there’s two extremes - that the government mandate you have under ‘Obamacare’ ultimately is the only way you control health care costs not today but in the future, the ultimate way that would end up leading towards is rationing of health care. I don’t think that’s a good decision.” Walker said. “On the other end, I and plenty of other governors would like to go down the path of a free market solution that engages me and every other consumer of health care in being a more active participant in controlling our health, not just our health care costs.”.....
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57464544/gov-walker-we-learned-from-romney-on-health-care/
Hmm.. And those fuel moneies that fund the HTF are collected by the States and forwarded to the Feds. Escro account til after the Election, perhaps?
Who gives a sh!t about highway funds? We have enough oil money here in Texas we could build a wall around the joint and tell Washington to stick it up their asses!
“...And the Feds will withhold highway funds until they comply. Game over....”
The states will just tell the Feds that no federal income tax, federal fuel tax or any other federal tax will flow to them from those states but rather to the state coffers. The big oil and gas states like Texas, Louisiana and Oklamhoma will cripple em. The more states that take that stance, the quicker this crashes and burns.
One of the few bright spots in Roberts' treasonous opinion on ObamaCare is that is specifically prohibits punitively withholding unrelated funds from a state. The thugs in our White House will have to bully our leaders the old fashioned way and blackmail governors one by one over personal indiscretions or the safety of their families, rather than using financial blackmail.
So the states refuse to send their tax receipts to Washington. Who looses? Its a (Pardon the expression) Mexican standoff.
“And the Feds will withhold highway funds until they comply.”
Then the states can stop sending in the tax money made through gas sales.
Game on!
“And the Feds will withhold highway funds until they comply.”
Could the states in turn withhold collection of federal highway taxes on gasoline?
States should preemptively withhold all kinds of taxes. Now. Before zero preempts the states.
Texas doesn’t need the feds highway funds.
“And the Feds will withhold highway funds until they comply.”
Did this ruling not take that option away?
I thought the ruling is if funds were flowing and you (the state) met the requirements of the ‘old’ rule. A new requirement and new demands were indeptendent.
But with an administration that makes Michael Corleone look like a good guy - who knows.
In all fairness, Reagan did the same thing with until all states had a drinking age of 21..
If they really want to stick a symbolic knife in the federal G, do not allow federal with holdings from paychecks and create a pool of money to do the things the federal gangsta does not..just say no to the federal gangsta..states first, de fang the federal “g”
If they withhold highway funds then that matter would end up in the SC. In meantime I guess the state cod refuse to send in federal gasoline tax money in retaliation but that sounds pretty ugly.
I am not sure we have seen such fighting between states and feds in a long time.
They can’t. If you read the opinion, this is one thing that it is pretty clear that the Federal Government cannot do. If they cannot take away the existing medicaid funding from a state for failure to implement the new expansion, they certainly can’t take away funding that is entirely distinct from the medicaid program.
States need to simply stop sending money to the feds, keep THEIR money and flip the bird to big bro.