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[–] 19 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

if the federal government can condition federal funds this way, then states can condition their states contribution to federal taxes

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    Employers and employees are the ones paying those taxes. If this could work at all, it’d only be taxes from businesses that don’t cross state lines. And I suspect feds would raid even those and arrest the owners.

    And unfortunately there’s a long history of this, like denying interstate highway funds to states that wouldn’t raise the drinking age.

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