House lawmakers in Washington D.C. voted 222-190 in favor of a bill blocking states from attempting to eliminate the sale of internal combustion engine vehicles. The measure also would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from issuing waivers for such bans.
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I have to wonder about State's Rights. Do we need any mandates pushed down from the Federal level to the States? If the people in a particular State want to collectively want to do something stupid, it should be their freedom.
I'd agree with you if people in power were actually elected by the people rather than selected by fraudulent voting systems.
Absolutely, and I will add that in addition there is another requirement - that peoplebe fully aware of the reality they are living on, and not be living in ignorance.
The problem is none of the State's citizens voted on any of these bills. So you could say the States are shoving the made up laws down the citizen's throats. We have a lot of people in California that make their living using small engine powered equipment.
Agreed. And the priority of federal law makers must be to ensure all states operate transparently and according to their people's wishes, rather than force each issue one way or another.
Citizens aren't supposed to vote on individual bills in a representative democracy. Citizens vote for their representatives, and those representatives are supposed to study the issues, write legislation, and vote on bills in accordance with their constituents. Having citizens participate directly consumes too much time, and you're less likely to get well-thought-out legislation.
If the elections are rigged, then you've got a separate issue in that your representatives are illegitimate.
If the electorate has an idiot majority, then you're pretty much fucked.
You have a point. However, all states are supposed to be following the U.S. Constitution along with their own, which has that limited-government thing that no one seems to be doing.
This pretty clearly falls under the Constitutional power to "to regulate Commerce... among the several States", at least as per jurisprudence since Wickard v. Filburn. Mind you, I'd love to see that terrible decision and all of its successors rolled back, but that would be a seismic disruption to our body of law and we're more likely to see an actual revolution than an in-system change of that scope.
One thing everyone forgets is each state is fully empowered to metaphorically flip the bird at any law the feds come up with and refuse to adopt or otherwise codify that law.
Not saying there aren't consequences, but states shouldn't rely on fed dollars anyways.
Works with counties too
but we have to have good constitutional governor's, judges, AG's, etc., in the states to even flip the bird. they've corrupted so many in the legal systems, that seems to be the problem we are having.
Agreed. Which is why it is so important for us to start at the local level and work the way up in cleaning it all up.
My sister's hubby went for city council, did a couple terms, and did really good work. They are super based.
He got noticed by some other legit based gop ppl, and they convinced him to run for state rep. Ran against the dem. Incumbent. My brother had 20k in the war chest, the dem. Got 5 million from dark money.
My sis and 3 other ladies got 40 pole watchers, stopped the cheating, and my bro won outright.
He's been making sweeping changes, rallied the good guys on both sides of the isles. He found there is no backbone in the "leadership". To either side. Just timidness and greed. After his first year they already want him to run for governor.
Agreed.
The more the Federal Government makes laws to dictate powers the States have ... the more people think the Federal Government had the power over the States to begin with, and the more people think the Federal Government has more power than they do.
Don't we have enough important stuff 5worry about? Return power and autonomy to the states, de fund the control freaks in Washington DC and let the be representives, not rulers.
Thanks for being the news now.
Assembly Bill 1346 bans the sale of small internal combustion engines starting 01/01/2024.
H.R. 1435 is not going to help the small engines.
People in California will have to smuggle in weed eaters and blowers from Nevada and Arizona.
The portion blocking the EPA seems legit. The bit about blocking the states seems unconstitutional.
Just in case anyone else read it incorrectly at first, as I did, this is a good thing. Well at least with respect to what we're used to out of DC. This is a bill prohibiting the banning of gas powered engines. A double negative so to speak.