Fiscal policy is in the news all the time. When the President talks about spending tax money to address the needs of our country he is really talking about fiscal policy. Many states are behind in their payments to nursing homes like the one pictured above (picture not important). In my state of Ilinois, Medicaid payments to this nursing home were running eight months behind. You and I must pay all of our bills on time yet the states and federal government never seem to pay their bills on time. Can, and should, we make our legislators pay their bills on time?