Circumventing Constitutional Requirements
President Obama proposes that the federal government send another $25 billion to states for their Medicaid programs. John Hood says this is “a continuing assault on constitutional government.” Thanks to the way Medicaid is financed–part from state budgets, partly from the federal budget, “Washington [has] used its borrowing authority to assist states in circumventing their constitutional requirements to enact balanced budgets.”
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