When talking about budget problems, state lawmakers like to say that “everything is the table.” But they usually don’t mean it — refusing to consider tax increases or cuts to certain programs. However, the state’s budget shortfall is so serious — nearly half a billion dollars this fiscal year, according to new revenue estimates and including increased education costs — that lawmakers need to rise above their rigid ideologies and be open to all options. That includes more cuts to education and other important programs, delaying the phase-in of tax cuts, and increasing some taxes or eliminating some sales-tax exemptions.
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If the tax loaded health care bill passes the U.S. Senate, this deficit will look small compared to the smack down the Democrats pass on to future generations.
I have a feeling in Kansas, government administrators are saying cut everywhere but not in my bailywick so I can keep my job. Someone at the top in Kansas government must make tough decisions before its too late.
Don’t worry Phillip education will get theirs. The dims that say they are for the most vulnerable do not mean it. They make a stand for K-12 first and talk about the rest but come up with no solutions to address the rest.
Just watch the process and you will hear the dims talk the talk of no more taxes, we can’t cut K-12, we can’t cut services to the most vulernable. At the same time the offer nothing to walk the walk.
It is an election year so expect all the talk without the walk.
Is the table big enough to get the defense department budget even ON the table? Let’s have a country more worth defending before we budget one more dime to “defense”.
BJ, thios thread is really about the budget for the state of Kansas.
I don’t disgree with you point about the DOD budget, but you probably need to focus on what further cuts are going to do to your son’s education and so forth.
Read this and then tell me how proud you are to be a Republican in this state at this time in history.
http://www.kansascity.com/340/story/1555662.html
If you are registered as an “R” there is still time to move to an unaffiliated or come over to where values still mean something besides headlines and sound-bites.
Or you can be equated with Politico.