Endymio
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In some cases. In others, they are legally or practically required to adopt them. And whether or not a state (or the local county/city ordinance department) requires things like low-flow toilets or non-410a AC system, you're out of luck, thanks to the federal government. Furthermore, as the federal government, through HUD, underwrites a large number of mortgages, and in this case, it specifies building requirements above and beyond local code.States are free to adopt, or not, whatever recommended federal codes they wish.
An excellent self-referential description of your post. If you actually have a specific fact or argument to rebut, why not do so, rather than engaging in no more than, as you say, a bit of "textual diarrhea"?Why does the usual right-trash textual diarrhoea [sic] not surprise me? Strawmen and never-ending fallacies, never anything resembling reason or logic; just kneejerk emotional responses, feelings of being "oppressed" by their own government, the poor little snowflakes