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Texas to blackmailing Obama: Maybe you can just keep your federal funds
Canada Free Press ^ | 05/16/16 | Dan Calabrese

Posted on 05/16/2016 7:04:58 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony

Gauntlet thrown

Surely you heard this past weekend about the Obama threat to withhold federal education funds from states who don’t immediately embrace Obama’s transgender bathroom policies. The current shell game of collecting money through the IRS and then sending it back to the states in the form of federal aid is merely a way for the federal government to dictate to the state how they must operate. It’s certainly not a new phenomenon, either. Remember the nationwide 55-mile-per-hour speed limit? That was never a law passed by Congress. It as a gambit of Jimmy Carter to deny federal highway funds to any state that didn’t play ball.

Typically, states meekly capituate to these threats because they don’t want to lose the funds. Obama knows that perfectly well, and figured he could use the threat of withholding federal funds to force his transgender bathroom agenda on the entire nation.


TOPICS: Education; Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: obama; schools; texas; transgender
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To: Sean_Anthony

It’s not just withholding of funds, they can also request the state to pay funds back that they have already “given” to them...


41 posted on 05/16/2016 9:00:01 AM PDT by shotgun
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To: HarleyLady27

> What happened to the ‘car washes’ ‘bake sales’ doing things for donations to raise money for certain causes?

The DFA and Department of Agriculture will require disclosure and certification of bake sale product ingredients.


42 posted on 05/16/2016 9:02:36 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (The reason for Gun Control has always been Government's Fear of Rebellion.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
remember when Jimmy Carter created this department. It was just supposed to coordinate among the various state education departments to collect data and provide it to everyone and enforce certain civil rights matters like desegregation of schools.

In 2010, Barack Obama called for fixing the public education system by giving us the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and “Race to the Top,”

which he said would fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,”

which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,”

which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by “America 2000,”

which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk,

which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter first fixed the nation’s public school system by establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.

43 posted on 05/16/2016 9:02:57 AM PDT by Maceman
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To: BuffaloJack

Then buy them at the store and add a few cents...


44 posted on 05/16/2016 9:17:45 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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To: Sean_Anthony

I did a research paper on the “55 saves lives” blackmail lie in high school.

the fedgov uses money to get get states to pass laws the fedgov does not have the constitutional authority to make.


45 posted on 05/16/2016 9:34:45 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Barackolypse How?)
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To: originalbuckeye

Here’s the plan: Texas recommends each of its 10 million (or so) taxpayers send $1000 of their taxes due to the feds to the state instead. At the same time it offers to pay the U.S. taxes and provide an attorney for anyone who is actually taken to tax court (which can only be a small fraction of the total).


46 posted on 05/16/2016 10:28:45 AM PDT by AZLiberty (A is no longer A, but a pull-down menu.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Once off the teat they loose all power over you, for ANYTHING.

Besides that, there is no delegated power given the federal to fund education among the several States in the first place. That alone is reason to stand against it.


47 posted on 05/16/2016 10:38:50 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Sean_Anthony

The FIRST federal agency to go in my fantasy presidency is the Department of Education. Shut down, lock, stock & barrel. Everybody attached to it FIRED. I hope I live to see the day it becomes a reality.


48 posted on 05/16/2016 10:40:30 AM PDT by OriginalChristian (The end of America, as founded, began when the first Career Politician was elected...)
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To: dhs12345

BS. Two Words: Lottery Proceeds.


49 posted on 05/16/2016 10:41:19 AM PDT by OriginalChristian (The end of America, as founded, began when the first Career Politician was elected...)
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To: dhs12345

Oh well ... I guess their PARENTS will have to step up.


50 posted on 05/16/2016 10:41:27 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: OriginalChristian

me too.


51 posted on 05/16/2016 10:41:49 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: OriginalChristian

But, the state won’t want to give those funds up.


52 posted on 05/16/2016 10:54:52 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Sean_Anthony

Only about 11 percent of our independent school district is federally funded. The rest is mostly from state funds and local taxation. I wonder if we reduced our expenses or replaced the federal funds with non-federal sources we could throw off the chains of Washington? Any ideas out there from more enlighten FReepers as to whether this might be possible. Texans would like to tell Obama and his Department of Eduction to shove it. States should determine and control their public education based on their local needs, not those of Washington or the world.


53 posted on 05/16/2016 11:35:48 AM PDT by Texicanus (Texas, it's like a whole 'nother country.)
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To: Boogieman

Bump

Needs to happen ASAP


54 posted on 05/16/2016 11:42:36 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Actually, the national 55 mph speed limit was passed by congress and signed into law by President Richard Nixon in 1974. In 1987, the limit was raised to 65 mph and then in 1995 Congress repealed the law.


55 posted on 05/16/2016 12:25:31 PM PDT by M.T. Helmets (All the news that fits.)
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