Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 12:27:52 -0400
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On 4/5/2024 3:16 AM, The Horny Goat wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Apr 2024 23:30:15 +0000, BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>> The interstate highway system was originally a military project to ensure
>> troops and material could be quickly moved from one part of the country to
>> another. That makes constructing it a proper exercise of federal power.
> 
> Which as you know was a fig leaf to allow federal spending in areas of
> state jurisdiction.
> 
> Nothing more, nothing less.

*I* didn't know that, and am glad to have it cited here.