Logic would have it that targeted states would respond to the threat to their authority through a dual strategy.

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The logic of Justice Roberts's opinion suggests that once states adopt new Medicaid, the program immediately becomes the old program for the purposes of the law and then states can't leave.

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The logic appears to be to get Israel to freeze settlements, the Arab states to offer up partial normalization and together this will somehow get Israel and the Palestinians into a successful negotiation on the toughest issues -- Jerusalem, borders and refugees.

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The same logic applies to Medicaid except that in this case defined contributions also means giving states a fixed dollar amount so that they no longer have an unrelenting incentive to expand their programs.

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So if business logic applies, the new factories that manufacture wind turbines, propellers or solar panels will end up in states like North Dakota or Texas, which have been the most successful, thus far, at attracting other manufacturing jobs.

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