From: Paul Grant (shade999@optonline.net)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 10:04:44 MDT
From: owner-extropians@extropy.org [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]
On Behalf Of Mike Lorrey
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 11:08 PM
>Uh, not quite. Firstly, the Free State would refuse to cooperate with
Patriot Act enforcement, since, for example, here in NH we have an
unfunded mandates law. No government can order another government entity
to perform some function without funding that function. Therefore, the
feds can't ask the state or local governments to enforce the Patriot Act
without funding said enforcement in its entirety.
>The feds are actually scared of forcing the issue as well, because they
know that they would lose their case before a structuralist SCOTUS. NH
regularly tells the feds to take a hike over federal mandates that have
funding strings attached. We told them to take a hike over seat belts
and motorcycle helmets, for example. We still get highway funding,
despite the feds threatening to take it away.
>In fact, NH only gets 71 cents back of every dollar we send to the feds
in taxes, the lowest of any state. We know we don't need the feds. They
need us more than we need them, so they never try to force the issue
because NH is the only state that has a right of revolution and
secession built into its state constitution. They piss us off enough and
we are gone. Oh, yeah, and we have the largest gun makers in the US here
too...
<me> I *knew* there was a reason why i liked New Hampshire :)
omard-out
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