The question of whether the stimulus package will work has been hotly debated. FactCheck.org has a tally going. The weekend reports that Republican Governors are considering not taking the money because they don’t agree with it philosophically may answer the question. If some states use the stimulus and others don’t we may have created a real world test about the impact — or lack thereof. That would be good to know. However, if the stimulus package works and some states are excluded because of the decisions of their elected leaders, one has to be concerned about their citizens. It likely won’t be the wealthy in the state that are left behind, but the people missing payments of extended unemployment payments and the like. That kind of real world experimentation isn’t something we should hope for.
