They don't care. They will issue "special compensation" for friends and campaign contributors.They do understand that this will also heavily HEAVILY effect bluebstates right?
Honestly, I don't understand why red states are not using it already.But we know full well they won't pass one, much less enforce it even-handedly. You know it, I know it, and they probably know it, too.
At this point, I think it's a waste of time to project our own views and desires of what the government should do onto self-serving politicians who have little interest in doing it.
Instead, we should focus on political realities and learn how to make due with (or better yet, capitalize on) those. And as far as those are concerned… well, Red State nullification isn't the worst thing that could come out of this. Might even be good for us, in some ways — especially if it stops unilateral federal supremacy in its tracks throughout large swaths of the country.
Because, like many mainstream ‘right wing’ political groups in Europe, the majority of the Republican Party is on board with this while pretending they aren’t.Honestly, I don't understand why red states are not using it already.
We have had blue "sanctuary cities" or "sanctuary states" for a long time now that simply ignore things like federal laws about illegal immigration.
So why don't we have red sanctuary states which ignore liberal federal laws?
The number one barrier to that is going to be Federal funding. Most if not all red states are pretty dependent on it to fund things like road maintenance and education. Actually probably a lot more than you'd realize. This is why, for example, the drinking age in all states is 21 even though in the past, some states had lower ones. Unless states can become more self-sufficient, a lot of this probably won't work, and it will be a hard time doing that because it will mean raising state and local taxes.
Relevant:They don't care. They will issue "special compensation" for friends and campaign contributors.
On paper, red states average more funding per tax dollar they send in compared to blue states.Actually, that makes me wonder what the ratio of taxes paid to funding received looks like? Because off the top of my head, I'm guessing much of the funding received is federal tax revenue collected and redistributed back to Red States that could've kept it and allocated it themselves, if they told the Feds to fuck off.
Even if not, there's still the breakdown of which areas federal funding goes to (such as military assets) and whether state efforts (or better yet, the private sector) can replace what's been lost. They'll have to, if they want to free themselves of Blue States who've been pissing all the wealth they've created into the gutter and are too mired in red tape to generate more. Come 2043, and maybe the tables will have turned — with wealthy Red States slamming the door on impoverished Blue States who're come crawling to the negotiating table.
To whit, 40 states receive more funding than they send in for taxes, and it's split fairly evenly between red and blue states. The actual determinant of who gets more funding is which states have more wealth in the first place, wealthy states naturally get less in the way of aid programs like SNAP while poor states get more. Since California, New York, Hawaii, and a few other coastal states are extremely wealthy and also solid blue, they skew the results significantly. New Mexico is also a blue state and gets the highest amount of federal dollars relative to its tax rate.
Conservation and increased energy efficiency: good.Biden Administration Rule Would Ban Nearly All Portable Gas-Powered Generators
Biden Administration Rule Would Ban Nearly All Portable Gas-Powered Generators
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t's anti-middle-class-ism from the super-wealthy.
"This Administration is using all of the tools at our disposal to save Americans money while promoting innovations that will reduce carbon pollution and combat the climate crisis," Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said in a statement about the regulations.
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Never ascribe to stupidity that which be attributed to human malice.Conservation and increased energy efficiency: good.
How the greens are go about it: Pants on head retarted.
They really want him to be king:
Professors urge Biden to defy 'mistaken' rulings by 'MAGA' Supreme Court justices
Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet and political scientist Aaron Belkin penned a letter calling on President Biden to sidestep recent Supreme Court rulings.www.foxnews.com
Whargrbl FTFA: "gravely mistaken interpretations of the Constitution"They really want him to be king:
Professors urge Biden to defy 'mistaken' rulings by 'MAGA' Supreme Court justices
Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet and political scientist Aaron Belkin penned a letter calling on President Biden to sidestep recent Supreme Court rulings.www.foxnews.com
I'm not sure about that...
What happens when they pack the Supreme Court with idiots that then declare the bill of rights was a typo?
That's all folks? Pack it up. It's over?
What a shitty justification, we will save the lives of more than 2,000 people over the next thirty years thanks to this legislation.
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... what?What a shitty justification, we will save the lives of more than 2,000 people over the next thirty years thanks to this legislation.