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You can thank the Reagan Administration for that one. The Department of Transportation had ideological scruples about mandating airbags, and came up with number
by cafard 2y ago
You can thank the Reagan Administration for that one. The Department of Transportation had ideological scruples about mandating airbags, and came up with numbers to indicate that raising the drinking age would decrease automotive fatalities by a comparable rate.
Before that, the drinking age was up to the states.
- chrisco255 2y agoIt still is up to the states but I suppose they would lose 10% of their highway funding if they went against the law: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._history_of_alcohol_minimum_purchase_age_by_state https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._history_of_alcohol_mini... To be honest I think Federal laws like this that carve out "obey or be punished financially" dictates should be outlawed and unconstitutional. Or if the Federal government wants to make funding conditional then the taxes for that initiative should not be enforceable for the state that chooses to forego that service.