Highway money is their single largest weapon, because suspension of it makes the roads decay without maintenance, which makes people angry, who put pressure on the state politicians to explain why this is happening, who then have to explain that their roads are crap because the Feds are withholding funds to force compliance. The state politicians will then likely concede so they can get re-elected.
Highway disbursements are how we got the double nickel, uniform mandatory drinking ages and a host of other bad centralist ideas. They’re also one of the largest payments that a state gets from the Feds.
“Highway disbursements are how we got the double nickel, uniform mandatory drinking ages and a host of other bad centralist ideas. They’re also one of the largest payments that a state gets from the Feds.”
Again, if you SERIOUSLY think that people like Obama and Hillary will stop imposing mandates on states, just because the roads are ‘privately owned’, you need to join us on some other threads. That is NOT how they operate.