Say law is a 'budget trap' that will hook them on more spending
(NEWSER) - Five Republican governors are threatening to turn down much of their stimulus windfall, afraid of taking addictive doses of spending on education, welfare, and health care that the states would have to shoulder in 2011 and beyond. And they're right to worry, the Wall Street Journal says. Take enrolling new families in Head Start, for instance: “There’s no way politically we’re going to be able to push people out of the programs in two years when federal money runs out,” says South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford. More»
