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> they should vote Republican at the federal level so they can stop subsidizing Wyoming Republicans being for states rights hasn't been true for my entire life
by seattle_spring 6y ago
> they should vote Republican at the federal level so they can stop subsidizing Wyoming
Republicans being for states rights hasn't been true for my entire lifetime (30+ years).
- rayiner 6y agoWe just had a huge battle where Republicans opposed Medicaid expansion in states. (Which would involve more blue state federal tax dollars going to red states.) There are a couple of areas where Republicans support federal preemption, such as telecommunications (which falls squarely under even a narrow definition of the commerce clause, as “channels of interstate commerce”). But for the most part they fight federal encroachment in environmental laws (regulating infra-state bodies of water), health spending, etc. When have Republicans had the federal government intervene to stop a domestic transit or health program that wasn’t reliant on federal dollars?