Good news about police.

[Boomhauer]

Plus states like NJ and NY you'd be a dumbass to carry in anyway. Remember some of these blue states are the ones that will arrest and prosecute people complying with federal law in transporting firearms interstate.

[Fitz]

Do to the states with this like they did to force them to change the drinking age.  Withhold money if they don't comply.

So, trample the constitution in the name of the constitution?

[Hawkmoon]

So, trample the constitution in the name of the constitution?

Where does it say in the Constitution that the federal government will fund the states?

[Fitz]

Where does it say in the Constitution that the federal government will fund the states?

Pretty sure it's not telling the federal government to extort the states into doing its bidding

[Hawkmoon]

Maybe if the feds would just "extort" a few more states over a few more issues we could start to whittle the national debt down a bit and let the economy get back to being quasi-viable.

[Fitz]

Maybe if the feds would just "extort" a few more states over a few more issues we could start to whittle the national debt down a bit and let the economy get back to being quasi-viable.

How in the world would that help the national debt?

[Perd Hapley]

How in the world would that help the national debt?

I believe he's talking about the national government spending less on the states.

[Hawkmoon]

How in the world would that help the national debt?

Where do you think the feral government gets the money they "give" to the states?

They borrow it. Each year the feral government runs a deficit (even if one year's deficit is less than the previous year's deficit) adds to the debt. Every program the cities or states get a federal grant for is a program that adds to the national debt.

"Deficit reduction" is a stupid, meaningless term. Until we enact budgets that have zero deficits and include a line item for paying down the national debt, the country is teetering on fiscal disaster.