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WHITT

(2,868 posts)
Wed Mar 17, 2021, 12:49 PM Mar 2021

Repub AGs Want Their Tax Cuts Or Else

A letter sent by twenty one Repub state attorneys general to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen demands that she refuse to implement a provision in the American Rescue Plan which prohibits states from using $350 billion in stimulus on financing state tax cuts.

Apparently these clowns have forgotten that the SCOTUS previously ruled that the feds can indeed include binding strings to federal dollars sent to the states. I'm recalling past fights over the drinking age and speed limits.

LETTER (PDF):
[link:https://www.oag.ok.gov/sites/g/files/gmc766/f/yellen_letter_3-16_final.pdf|


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Repub AGs Want Their Tax Cuts Or Else (Original Post) WHITT Mar 2021 OP
The Federal Government determines spending by them Dawson Leery Mar 2021 #1
The federal govt. is not going to fund their tax cuts LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2021 #2

Dawson Leery

(19,348 posts)
1. The Federal Government determines spending by them
Wed Mar 17, 2021, 12:51 PM
Mar 2021

and the states do the same for themselves. The entire conservative movement was a scam.

LetMyPeopleVote

(145,321 posts)
2. The federal govt. is not going to fund their tax cuts
Wed Mar 17, 2021, 03:48 PM
Mar 2021

I am not sure that is the legal theory that these assholes will use to attack this provision

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