A Nat'l Car Tax Would Enlist States as Federal Tax Collectors

WSJ's Kim Strassel Notes Foolishness of Proposed Federal Car Tax - Americans for Tax Reform

In her Potomac Watch column this week, the Wall Street Journal’s Kimberley A. Strassel notes the policy and political foolishness of the proposed federal car tax in the House transportation bill. The provision attempts to force state governments to collect a federal tax. Strassel writes: Campaign slogans can be catchy, clumsy or clever. Few are as crazy as the one Republicans are setting themselves up for this fall: “Vote GOP. The party that bro…

A Nat'l Car Tax Would Enlist States as Federal Tax Collectors

The legal principle dominating Supreme Court jurisprudence in recent decades known as the anti-commandeering doctrine, holds that the Constitution, in particular the Tenth Amendment, bars Congress fro