Thanks!

His [previous related article](https://raymondniles.substack.com/p/how-to-end-cronyism) also looks pretty awesome, especially because it has a chapter called "Remove The Cookie Jar".

optimism

They went along because the Feds said if you don't change the speed limit, you won't get any interstate highway money. Generally, blackmail.

winteryeti

Government money always came with strings. Trump is just pulling them a lot harder.

Growing up in the 1970s, I remember one of the more bizarre spectacles of that decade’s energy crisis: police cars deliberately slowing down the freeways.

The new national speed limit was 55 miles-per-hour, and Americans were not enthusiastic about it. On Highway 15 that connected Los Angeles to Las Vegas, the California Highway Patrol deployed dozens of “pace cars” blocking every lane of the highway, driving at 55 and forcing everyone behind them to do the same.

In other parts of the country, the rule seemed even more absurd. Montana had long allowed motorists on its highways to drive at any speed that was “reasonable and prudent.” Suddenly, Montana too had to impose a maddeningly slow 55-mile-per-hour maximum on its wide-open highways. Its own law explicitly acknowledged why: the limit would remain in place as long as federal law required it as a condition for receiving federal highway funds.

Why did California, Montana, and eventually every other state go along?

Politics_And_Law

history

econ

> Government money always came with strings. Trump is just pulling them a lot harder.
> 
> Growing up in the 1970s, I remember one of the more bizarre spectacles of that decade’s energy crisis: police cars deliberately slowing down the freeways.
>
> The new national speed limit was 55 miles-per-hour, and Americans were not enthusiastic about it. On Highway 15 that connected Los Angeles to Las Vegas, the California Highway Patrol deployed dozens of “pace cars” blocking every lane of the highway, driving at 55 and forcing everyone behind them to do the same.
>
> In other parts of the country, the rule seemed even more absurd. Montana had long allowed motorists on its highways to drive at any speed that was “reasonable and prudent.” Suddenly, Montana too had to impose a maddeningly slow 55-mile-per-hour maximum on its wide-open highways. Its own law explicitly acknowledged why: the limit would remain in place as long as federal law required it as a condition for receiving federal highway funds.
> 
> Why did California, Montana, and eventually every other state go along?
> 
> ...