[Timocrat]

Congress can't hold a gun to states’ heads in order to force them to implement federal policies.

So the threat of the withholding of Federal Dollars for Highways if a 70 mile an hour limit was not imposed was not a gun, but a mere suggestion.Does anyone believe this rubbish.

[Buckeye McFrog]

So the threat of the withholding of Federal Dollars for Highways if a 70 mile an hour limit was not imposed was not a gun, but a mere suggestion. Does anyone believe this rubbish.

It is. And it was very successfully used by Ronald Reagan to raise the national drinking age to 21.