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Originally posted by PSKAdvisor
By the way, the drinking age switched sate by state. It's a state's-rights issue, not a federal issue. The feds just put pressure on states with that highway funding stuff. To the best of my knowledge, Wisconsin NEVER benefitted from federal highway funding. I can tell you exactly when it changed in Wisconsin because I missed the cutoff by one month when it switched from 18 to 19, and two months when it went from 19 to 21. (Sucked to be me in the 80s)
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It was much more than "pressure," it was "you get $0 if you don't pass this law."