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ERIC CANTOR: No Bailout For The States. Echoing Jim DeMint. Cantor flatly rejected any changes ?

By Glenn Reynolds

ERIC CANTOR: No Bailout For The States. Echoing Jim DeMint.

Cantor flatly rejected any changes in the law that would allow state governments struggling with record budget deficits brought on by the economic recession and rising pension costs to restructure debt, including allowing them to declare bankruptcy.

?I don?t think that that is necessary, because state governments have at their disposal the requisite tools to address their fiscal ills,? the majority leader said, before going a step further.

?I think some … have mentioned this Chapter 9 equivalent for states is somehow going to stave off some kind of federal bailout ? we don?t need that to stave off a federal bailout. There will be no bailout of the states,? Cantor said. ?States can deal with this and have the ability to do so on their own.?

All they have to do is spend less.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 25, 2011 (boomark / email).