• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

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

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      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.