Jonathan Williams Warns States Against Federal Bailout on Daily Signal News

ALEC Executive Vice President of Policy and Chief Economist Jonathan Williams spoke with Rachel del Guidice at The Daily Signal about why states should reject a federal bailout.

“Strings that come with these federal dollars oftentimes outlive the federal dollars, as we’ve found out with the last time we had a bail out of the states during the Obama era,” Williams says. “And I think it’s just a dangerous precedent to set that the states would look to the federal government to be their solution for problems that they are well-equipped to handle themselves.”

Read the transcript of the interview here or listen below. Interview begins at the 4:45 mark.