Failure To Pay Subsidies To Middle Class "Illegal"

Or so some headline writers at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch would have us believe: Lawsuit calls adoption-subsidy limits illegal:

Child welfare advocates filed a federal class-action lawsuit Monday against Gov. Matt Blunt and Missouri's social services director to try to halt adoption subsidy cuts that take effect Aug. 28 for former foster children with special needs.

The lawsuit, announced at a news conference in St. Louis, was filed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City. It accuses Blunt and Gary Sherman, director of the Missouri Department of Social Services, of failing to protect the interests of abused and neglected children.

State subsidies currently are given to the families regardless of income. Legislation passed earlier this year limits the subsidies to certain families earning less than 200 percent of the poverty level, $38,700 annually for a family of four.

Understand the reasoning, friends: Once a subsidy is given, it must always increase, or it's a violation of the law.

We at DMB2008 laud Matt Blunt for his common-sense fiscal cuts, but silently weep that our state government must now spend tax dollars to fight money-grubbing lawsuits from the haves who would have more.