States with Confederate flag license plates could lose funding under Sen. Sherrod Brown proposal

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By Stephen Koff
on June 24, 2015 at 2:19 PM
updated June 24, 2015 at 2:48 PM
WASHINGTON, D. C. -- U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown today said the federal government should use whatever power it has to keep the Confederate battle flag off public property - starting with license plates. The Ohio Democrat said he will author an amendment to a highway-funding bill that would withhold a portion of federal road building-and-repair money to states that use the Confederate flag on license plates ...
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2015/06/states_with_confederate_flag_license_plates_could_lose_funding_under_sen_sherrod_brown_proposal.html

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1. Doesn't go far enough.

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We need to go further. Since the states that seceded from the United States to form the Confederate States of America didn't suffer enough in the Civil War and get punished enough in its aftermath, we need to make up for that now.

Possibilities include (and I've mentioned some of these elsewhere):

1. Halved representation in Congress and halved electoral votes.
2. Moving federal installations -- especially military bases -- out of the states.
3. Higher federal tax rates.
4. Reduced federal benefits.

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The latter two should probably be restricted to the descendants of slaveholders. The first would apply to the states as a whole, given that they're populated by a preponderance of racist white conservatives, and entirely too many old white men who are the sons of white privilege.

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3. What a ridiculous post n/t

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4. Yeah. Nothing trollish about that post. Nuthin' at all. (n/t

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5. Paging MIRT.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6894919

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026892528

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2. Yeah, but would love to get these guys on the record with their vote.