Question sparked by comment on this post…
For instance: if the Trump admin. tries to coerce CA to drop its climate change initiatives by cutting off federal highway funds, could port fees be increased to make up for the the change?
Is this something the Governor could do unilaterally, or would it take legislative action?
That this is how we gotta deal with baby-hands is terrible. I’m for it, we’ve gotta figure out how keep companies/jobs in CA while also punishing the people who keep saying “states rights, but not like that”.
We should be solving cancer and building our country up, but instead we gotta waste energy to keep the neo Nazis outside the gates. Fuck 'em.
Legally speaking I don’t know the answer but I think this would work best if a significant portion of coastal states would implement this together. California is big and does have an impact on its own, but all the blue states together could have a huge effect on overseas commerce.
That said, I could see congress interfering since this would clearly be an interstate commerce issue. Whether they will have the votes I don’t know.
