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...couple of kids up, nobody dares take you on. But the moment the kids say, 'We can take him if we band together,' the bully is finished." It helps too that the new legal strategy of states filing third-party claims against the tobacco companies to recoup the Medicaid dollars spent treating smoking-related illness involves possible monetary settlements--and legal fees--so huge that anti-tobacco litigation is now attracting the top guns of tort law. To date, five states--Florida, Minnesota, Mississippi, West Virginia and Massachusetts--have filed such suits. Maryland plans to join the fray soon...
...welfare proposal largely resurrects Ronald Reagan's controversial (and unenacted) "new federalism," putting $50 billion yearly in food stamps, nutrition programs and Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) under state discretion, while the Federal Government pays state Medicaid costs. To help local charities pick up any slack, Alexander would offer a $500 tax credit for every American to give to the group of their choice. The idea is to rekindle the personal involvement that G.O.P. virtuecrats like William Bennett say made for more "effective compassion" before Uncle...
...year," he says. "The Catholic bishops will tell you they can't take care of that." Worse, Alexander's plan could balloon the deficit. His charity tax credit, much of which rewards people for gifts they'd make anyway, would cost $20 billion a year. And thanks to soaring Medicaid costs, the federal-state swap he proposes could add another $50 billion to the deficit...
...seeing trashy talk shows and R-rated movies on cable, he says, they shouldn't just blame Hollywood; they should "turn off the TV and read to your kids." He would abolish the Department of Education (a move he never mentioned when he was running the place) and return Medicaid, the health program for the poor and disabled, to the states. He wants welfare to be administered entirely by nonprofit community groups, with the help of a new $500 tax credit for charitable contributions...
Engler's work on last week's welfare and Medicaid compromise can be seen as a further refinement of that strategy. In January the Governor threw a scare into some true believers by announcing a limited-area research effort called Project Zero. The still sketchy project involves intensive (and presumably expensive) intervention by welfare workers to learn why some people won't work; it includes no time limits, so some thought it signaled Engler's opposition to the congressional Republicans' five-years-and-you're-out philosophy. His fellow Governors knew better. Wisconsin's Tommy Thompson reports that Engler...