Over at Neighborhood Effect, my colleague Matt Mitchell had a great post–and response to Erza klein– last week about why Congress shouldn’t send more stimulus money to the states. The argument is that the massive increase in federal spending in the last few years has more-than made up for any decreases in state spending. His data is very informative.

His back and forth with Harry Moroz over at Huffington Post is a must-read to: here and here. The New York Times blog picked it up too, which is great because it means that our side is being heard.