Mud Season

One Year After Obamacare (Part 6)
The former director of the Congressional Budget Office, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, says that the costs of ObamaCare are set to explode when employers opt to drop coverage and send their workers to the new, federally subsidized health exchanges for coverage. He estimates that this will drive up the cost of the law by $1 trillion or more in the first 10 years. (Grace-Marie Turner, Alex Cortes and Heather R. Higgins, WSJ, 3/7/11)

One Better
(Maryland) lawmakers are addressing the reality that the undocumented are here to stay, and pushing for measures that will make them more productive members of society. There are few more compelling examples of the wisdom of that approach than helping undocumented high school graduates go to college. Giving such students a leg up by granting them reduced, in-state tuition rates could give them a brighter, more affluent future, benefiting their communities, their states and the nation. (Washington Post, 3/14/11)

RedStateVT notes that those illegals getting reduced college tuition are going to need housing, food and transportation.  As such, we recommend additional subsidies to cover these costs….in a display of (even more) compelling wisdom. 

And what about those families working two or three jobs to pay for their children's college and those students who take out loans to finance their education?  Surely they will see the compelling wisdom of what these intrepid lawmakers are proposing.