State Rep. Steve Toth (R) files 'Taxpayer Equitable Funding Act'

[TexasTowelie]

State Rep. Steve Toth (R-The Woodlands) has filed legislation assisting the protection of taxpayer funds being used for a federal program due to coercion. The 'Taxpayer Equitable Funding Act' or HB 1379 allows the Attorney General to sue and reject any federal program which is deemed to include unwanted local coercive conditions.

"There are too many instances where this Federal Administration has used the strong arm attempt toward the individual states to get their own agenda passed. Hardworking taxpayers should be able to get what they pay for without feeling like they are being held hostage by a failed system. States know what programs are best for their citizens. As it stands now, states are left at the mercy of congressional appropriations with little to no wiggle room. I believe the states could run programs more effectively with more accountability on a local level," Toth said.

The 'Taxpayer Equitable Funding Act' would do the following:

• Maintains the freedom of choice for Texas to accept federal programs if deemed more appropriate without coercion or strings attached

• Allow Texas the ability to work with like-minded states to develop a program that works best for them on a more local level

• Allows for some cost saving approaches to a more effective local program

More at http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/cypresscreek/news/legislature-state-rep-steve-toth-files-taxpayer-equitable-funding-act/article_3693e1d8-7a18-11e2-b93d-0019bb2963f4.html .

[cloudbase]

1. All while the

Texas Legislature continues to pile unfunded mandates on the school districts.

[mbperrin]

2. THE SUPREMACY CLAUSE OF THE US CONSTITUTION, TOTH, YOU ASSHOLE!

Article VI, Section 2, of the U.S. Constitution is known as the Supremacy Clause because it provides that the "Constitution, and the Laws of the United States … shall be the supreme Law of the Land." It means that the federal government, in exercising any of the powers enumerated in the Constitution, must prevail over any conflicting or inconsistent state exercise of power.

Shouldn't there be SOME sort of mental fitness test for state lawmakers?

[Gothmog]

3. This is the same idiot who wants to pre-empt federal gun regulations

I am glad that this idiot did not go to law school. It is not clear that he has any real education and that he has never read the US Constitution. Toth is proud of being a teabagger and being ignorant