“Why is a big gift from the federal government a matter of coercion? In other words, the federal government is here saying: We’re giving you a boatload of money. There are no matching funds requirement. There are no extraneous conditions attached to it. It’s just a boatload of federal money for you to take and spend on poor people’s health care. It doesn’t sound coercive to me, I have to tell you.”
Can we have any stronger evidence this “woman” is incapable of rendering a constitutional judgment on this matter? She’s one of the prime advocates!
The woman has zero conception...
Because the Feds can send a boatload of money every year.
A boatload this year.
A boatload next year.
Three years later, the Fed says “If you don’t do yada-yada, we’re not gonna send you a boatload this year!”
So now how do the states explain to their people that no boatload is coming this year? They don’t. They cave in to the Feds demands.