It is time for a state to take Congress to court | Fortune<\/title><meta name=\"description\" content=\"A state attorney general should stand up and assert the rights of the states under Article V of the U.S. Constitution.\"\/><link rel=\"author\" href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/author\/steve-h-hanke\/\"\/><meta name=\"author\" content=\"Steve H. Hanke\"\/><link rel=\"author\" href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/author\/david-m-walker\/\"\/><meta name=\"author\" content=\"David M. 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Hanke is a senior contributing columnist at Fortune, a professor of applied economics at Johns Hopkins University, and a director of the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation, which advocates for a fiscal responsibility amendment and a statutory fiscal commission. He is also co-editor, with Barry W. Poulson and John Merrifield, of Public Debt Sustainability: International Perspectives (Lexington Books, 2022). <\/em> <br \/>\n <br \/>\n<em>David M. Walker is the former Comptroller General of the United States and the chairman of the Federal Fiscal Sustainability Foundation. He is co-author, with Joe Penland, Sr., of the forthcoming Saving Social Security and America’s Future: Common Sense Solutions.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/div>\n<p>#time #state #Congress #court<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is time for a state to take… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1435,1467,2287,5416,14],"class_list":["post-7058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance-news","tag-congress","tag-court","tag-state","tag-supreme-court","tag-time"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>It is time for a state to take Congress to court - Finance News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=7058\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"zh_CN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It is time for a state to take Congress to court - 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