There’s something to this…Depending on what comes out of the conference committee in Washington, states may somehow be saddled with a heavier load than before the Feds came to the rescue.  This is definitely a developing story.  From the Review Journal:

Senate Minority Leader Bill Raggio, R-Reno, complained Friday that the “so-called sound stimulus package” being debated in the U.S. Senate will be of little help to Nevada because the state must spend hundreds of millions of dollars it doesn’t have in order to qualify for key federal education grants.

“We don’t have funding,” Raggio told U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., in somewhat of a scolding tone during a conference call. “We can’t be required to give what we don’t have to qualify for funding. Otherwise it is of no value to us whatsoever.”

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