• Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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    Must be nice for the states to ignore federal laws and at the same time take in federal money. WAY MORE then they pay in.

    Biden should revoke federal dollars to any state that refuses to follow federal laws.

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      That’s exactly what the “teeth” of federal regulations are. They can suspend anything from highway funding to tax breaks. “You want to go it alone? We’ll help it happen.”

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      No, Biden should send in the military and arrest politicians for treason for not following federal laws and encouraging and enabling others to not follow those laws.

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    Yeah these states act soooo tough until something like Hurricane Katrina comes in and they’d begging for federal help.

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      Most these states are welfare states even without Natural disasters. If the federal government decided to stop giving out money most red states would be broke in a day

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        Exactly.

        I’m thinking Mississippi would sink under 24 hours if it got it’s federal funding pulled. It’s already poor as fuck as it is.

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      Don’t let that stop them from voting no on federal disaster aid for other states at the very next fucking opportunity. Absolute trash.

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    Just a quick reminder that the Democratic governor of LA term-limited out recently, and the batshit MAGAt morons are positively crapping themselves to enact the most fucked up laws they can possibly cram into one legislative session.

    This isn’t an outlier, LA has been 100% befucked by republiQans. Being solid red isn’t new, but not having any decent reasonability or counter is relatively new. These fuckers aren’t just racist and cruel, they’re utter fucking morons.

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    Louisiana politicians are good at ignoring things. Like bad hygiene and incest with their siblings.

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      These states get millions of dollars of funding for hundreds of programs from highways to business tax breaks. These can be cut immediately.

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          shake shake shake

          Sources point to Yes

          Seriously though, why wouldn’t they? There’s historical precedent for this going back a long way. For a long time the Federal highway Max speed was 55 and that was because feds threatened to pull highway funding if any state exceeded that. Any state exceeding it now is only doing so with the fed’s blessing. Money works.

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      A tax payer putting money, involuntarily towards something they disagree with.

      Oh, the horror…

      First time being a US citizen?