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Late last month Governor Jay Nixon announced he would support an expansion of Missouri’s Medicaid program under ObamaCare. “[Expanding Medicaid is] the smart thing to do, and it’s the right thing to do,” he said.
Although one could describe Gov. Nixon’s announcement in many ways, “smart” and “right” would not appear in the parade of appropriate adjectives. Gov. Nixon doesn’t appear to have any plan to pay for the expansion, and he will be on his way out of Jefferson City when the new Medicaid costs begin to hit in earnest in 2017.
It fits a pattern. For decades, American politicians have feasted on the dangerous public misconception that Federal spending through the states is essentially free money. It’s not. Missouri taxpayers are also Federal taxpayers, liable for the debts that the Federal government incurs in their names. There’s no level of government cost splitting that can change the fact that Missourians, their children, and their grandchildren will have to account for this spending.
The move isn’t “smart” or “right.” It is, however, “business as usual,” and Missourians can’t afford that.
Patrick Ishmael
Policy Analyst, The Show-Me Institute
St. Louis, MO.
Treat Congress Like Citizens
Children of congress members do not have to pay back their college student loans. How nice!
On Fox news we learned that the staffers of Congress and Congress family members are exempt from having to pay back student loans. This will get national attention if other news networks will broadcast it. When you add this to the below, just where will all of it stop?
Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon them.
It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention.
This is an idea that we should address. For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one
term, that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary
citizens must live under those laws.
The latest is to exempt themselves from the Healthcare Reform… in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn’t seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don’t care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop.
Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: “Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and,
Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States.”
Beverly
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