[reaganaut1]

Why the heck should federal Head Start money depend on whether a state ratifies a child support treaty? I guess legislatures only to get to vote on treaties when the Obama regime has already decided how they should vote.

[riverrunner]

OH well to bad why do we need international child support regulations and way.

[SolidRedState]

I guess the NYT doesn’t understand what a sovereign state is.

[The_Victor]

I thought our Constitution forbid the individual states from entering into treaties with foreign governments?

[ConservativeMind]

Shouldn't it scare everyone when the federal government holds remission of taxes back to the states hostage to what it wants done?

This is why centralization of tax revenues with the federal government is bad policy. Minimizing what the federal government gets reduces such concern.

[goodnesswins]

A ‘CHILD SUPPORT TREATY’ ?????? Have other states gone along with this???

[CA Conservative]

Why the heck should federal Head Start money depend on whether a state ratifies a child support treaty?

I think if this was litigated, SCOTUS would slap this down. The Feds can make the child support enforcement money contingent upon the state passing the legislation, but they can't make other federal funds that are unrelated to child support contingent upon the state passing it. That is coercion, and SCOTUS already slapped down the Obama administration for that in the Medicaid expansion case.

[antidisestablishment]

Killing Head Start would be great in any case. The entire child support Enterprise was designed not for scofflaws, but to allow the Fed government to intrude in everyone’s life. Good for Idaho!

[Cen-Tejas]

“Child support” flows from failed marriages destroyed by Liberalism and Feminism.

The CS deck being totally stacked against young men in courtrooms all over this land and against all races defines WHY marriage is all but dead statistically and in the minds of “thinking” young men.