Surprised? Transportation Empowerment Act Was Ronald Reagan's Idea—In 1967!
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Last week I blogged that Ronald Reagan would love the Transportation Empowerment Act (TEA). I included audio of Reagan talking to Bill Buckley on Firing Line about the burden on states from onerous federal taxes and grants. Forgive me, but that was sort of a tease. Here’s the meat: Reagan wrote a proposal for the Republican Governors' Conference of 1967 to allow states to keep about 2 percent of all federal taxes raised in the state. Ninety-eight percent would still go to Washington for defense and studies of monkey sex lives and whatever they do with money up there, but the states would retain two percent.
Surprised? Transportation Empowerment Act Was Ronald Reagan's Idea—In 1967!
Surprised? Transportation Empowerment Act Was…
Surprised? Transportation Empowerment Act Was Ronald Reagan's Idea—In 1967!
Last week I blogged that Ronald Reagan would love the Transportation Empowerment Act (TEA). I included audio of Reagan talking to Bill Buckley on Firing Line about the burden on states from onerous federal taxes and grants. Forgive me, but that was sort of a tease. Here’s the meat: Reagan wrote a proposal for the Republican Governors' Conference of 1967 to allow states to keep about 2 percent of all federal taxes raised in the state. Ninety-eight percent would still go to Washington for defense and studies of monkey sex lives and whatever they do with money up there, but the states would retain two percent.