States do set their own speed limits and blood alcohol limits, but they do so with great coercion from the federal government. If the states do not agree with the feds demands, they will lose a lot of federal highway money.
States do set their own speed limits and blood alcohol limits, but they do so with great coercion from the federal government. If the states do not agree with the feds demands, they will lose a lot of federal highway money. I recall the Department of Transportation threatening one state with just such a loss of funds. They were told that the first hightways to be shut down for deferred maintenance would be the interstates, and that the effort spent collecting the federal taxes at the gas pumps would be the second cutback.
The feds preferred to compromise, and wait for a more compliant administration. Instead they got the Reagan landslide.
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