“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.
They’ll have to resort to far more blatant methods. Withholding highway money is far and away the easiest thing for them to do to compel compliance. Getting Interstate highway funding away from having to be dependent on FedGov to pay you what they’re supposed to is a huge step in the right direction.
It’s also a step back towards the original intent in the Constitution. Originally, all government made highways were tollways in the US. You may know them better by their original name - turnpikes. When the Constitution talks about Congress’ power “...to establish post roads,” the Framers meant turnpikes.