As I write this it appears our state legislature is again going to push the financial problem down the road rather than putting their jobs at risk. They will be borrowing to cover expenses again and putting the responsibility for cuts into the lap of the governor, who must be willing to throw himself under the bus for the party.
The saddest part of the whole play is scene one unfolds as stated above but this is a short term patch to last until after the elections in November. The second scene begins when the seven month plan runs out at the opportune time after elections and our legislators will feel free to resume their pork spending and bet on it folks, an income tax increase that they assume we are too mentally slow to realize is in the works right now. They should be ashamed.
I am not making a partisan point. Both parties are at fault for irresponsible spending and laws that put us in this position. Now they don't have the fortitude to make the necessary hard choices in spending constraint to put things right.
We will be seeing a minimum increase of 33% in our state income tax. Wouldn't you like to be able to go to your employer and demand a 33% increase in your pay because you have overspent? And some wonder why I do not want another layer of government.
Ken Dillenburg