States need to create a legal mechanism or escrow to hold it's citizens federal tax payments, in a way which the citizen is not liable for the non-payment, and the dispute is between the state and the federal government.
Warren buffett owns the trains that are used to transport the crude instead of the keystone xl pipeline. That's all you need to know. Nebraska is not complaining about the lost jobs, because buffett is headquartered in Nebraska.
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That would explain why the laptop is still being held, there would be logs of the thumb drive being used with the laptop.