Our editorial Friday rounded up the week’s ugly news about the state budget and concluded that “Kansans can hope state leaders will find the courage to pass a budget that meets the state’s responsibilities without pushing the pain off on locals or punishing the most vulnerable among us.” We’ve since learned that November revenues were 3.3 percent – or nearly $14 million – less than anticipated. Our editorial brought this reaction, though, from Alan Cobb, state director of Americans for Prosperity-Kansas: “Isn’t it worth mentioning the impact of four years of large budget increases on the current budget situation? If the budget had simply increased at 5 percent, hardly a small number, each year since 2004, we would have more than $2 billion in the bank now.”
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