-- Mike Millet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess I got a little confused because the federal > government provided a > reimbursement for much of the funding :). So I guess > the only other > alternative would be having the federal government > mandate metrication if > the states wanted federal highway funding, which > would never fly because it > would be the federal government holding a gun to the > state government's head > and forcing them to do something . Thus trampling > all over state's rights.
How do you think that the federal government got all fifty states to raise their legal drinking age to 21? By threatening to refuse federal highway funds to any state that had a drinking age lower than 21. Sounds, pretty much like what you've described above.
