Brittain33
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« on: January 09, 2016, 09:35:48 AM » |
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The purpose of block grants is to change an entitlement to a budget line item, which both stops it from expanding in a recession and also, in theory, lets the feds take a big whack at the total without having to deal with the consequences on an individual level because the states can decide who gets cuts.
States won't just recreate the federal policy because a) they'll be getting less money, which will bite when there's a real recession again, and also because b) we've seen with Medicaid expansion that several states in certain regions of the country will take the opportunity to end the program for most recipients ("they don't vote for us anyway") and use the money in some other way.
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