I think the author is forgetting that 50 laws would have to be changed, and 50 legislatures would have to in unison tell the feds that there will be dire consequences for withdrawing highway funds.
Not that I dont support this, but the auther may think there is some national alcohol age limit.
While I do not care one way or the other about the drinking age, I think it's time to tell the Fed's to go to hell about withdrawing highway funds. So far they have used them to set our drinking age, control our speed limit, design of our highways and threaten us about air quality.
While Bush is President and DeLay is Majority Leader of the House, Texas needs to tell them to stuff it.