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thedoctor said:

The bank will give me money to buy a home or a car. Should the bank mandate exactly which home or car I buy? What neighborhood it's in? What gas mileage it gets? What color the paint is?




The difference is, the bank is giving you a private loan that you eventually have to pay back with interest or risk losing whatever collateral you used to obtain the loan in the first place. The funds loaned to you are not public funds.

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Like I've said, I'm old school in that I believe in state's rights and a smaller federal government. I understand having provisions on federal aid to states, though. I just don't think that the federal government should be able to push a certain way of thought on a state body by using this money. In the LA example, the fed cut several aid packages to force the raising of the drinking age in the state from 18 to 21. Why would the amount given to education in that state have anything to do with the when legally recognized adult can buy a six pack?



Wait, I thought you said that the monies involved affected the Highways? That rings a bell for me. The fed $ given to the Department of Highways was related to the drinking age because the number of drunk drivers between the ages of 18-20 was incredibly high - much more so for that age range than any other. At least, this was the reason I remember being given for the feds to w/hold federal funds from La's Hwy Dept.

As for the amount given to education (I would first assume that we are talking about public education) I would think that the drunk driving rates of 18-20 y.o.s would be the reason given, yet again, as public education would encompass state universities who - despite protestations to the contrary - know that their undergraduates drink. A lot.


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