Highway Funding

As I search around for news relating to the initiative, I almost always find a comment about the loss of highway funding to states that lower the drinking age. The vast majority of these comments state, or at least imply, that a state will lose all of it’s funding. That is simply not the case.

States who lower the drinking age may lose up to 10 percent of their highway funding. Not all of it. It is still a hit on the budget, but it’s not the entire budget.

The bigger issue is that there is no national law dictating drinking age, yet the federal government is still forcing states into age 21 minimum regardless of how the states feel. Even more unfortunate is that not a whole lot of people realize that this is happening.

Remember the Golden Rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules.