You misunderstood me. If the Sheriff wants these toys he can go to the taxpayers of his jurisdiction and explain the need and ask his constituents to paQy for them with a local tax levy.
No Fed money needed.
That’s the Constitutional way to do things.
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Lurker, the feds have no constitutional authority to tax and spend for military police vehicles for local police departments imo. So the federal funding used to pay for such vehicles was arguably local / state revenues which corrupt Congress stole from the states by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Again, local police departments could hold on to the military police vehicles imo, such vehicles arguably paid for by unconstitutional federal taxes, the local police departments claiming that they are attempting to recover stolen local / state tax revenues.