Stimulus Spending Meets Bad Ideas

On May 21, 2010, in Uncategorized, by admin

It used to be that when the Federal government wanted to encourage states and cities to adhere to certain policies, they’d offer grants with strings attached. Highway funds, for example, are available only if states enforce federally mandated blood alcohol levels, as well as a drinking age of twenty-one.

Today, however, all pretenses are out the window, and the Obama administration is taking taxpayer money and sending it directly to local governments and non-profits to lobby on behalf of nanny-state policies.

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