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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (103685)2/10/2009 11:24:37 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 542043
 
But don't you think by bailing out the States we are allowing them to escape the decisions they have to make?

It's my understanding some of those are federal obligations--unemployment insurance and medicaid provisions--that lowered tax dollars because of a severe economic downturn and more demand because of unemployment, the states are simply unprepared to cover.

Some of the other money is to help keep states and municipalities from having to layoff workers. Perhaps that's what is troubling you. It's my understanding that the economic pressures on states will be well beyond the "normal" and they will either require additional help or their own layoffs will severely compound the problem.

I don't think it has anything to do with just how states have handled their budgets in the past.

As for using the octupulets case in CA to characterize the state's safety net, that's simply a classic fallacy, Steve. Using one case to characterize the whole program.

As for your point about choices that need to be made, the question is not whether they need to be made but which ones. I favor fully funding the shredded safety net in dire times so people have health care and aren't starving and have some sort of rough over their heads. Not a hard choice for me. If one wishes to treat that as a zero sum matter, then take the money from the most recent revelation of a bloated weapons program at the Pentagon.
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