Posted on 06/30/2009 2:17:56 PM PDT by tflabo
Indiana is one of five states -- along with Arizona, California, Mississippi and Pennsylvania -- bracing for possible shutdowns this week as time runs out for lawmakers to close billion-dollar gaps in their fiscal 2010 budgets.
Of the 46 states whose fiscal year ends today, 32 did not have budgets passed and approved by their governors as of Monday afternoon, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Although the majority of those are expected to pass eleventh-hour budgets, the fiscal futures of a handful remain uncertain, said Todd Haggerty, an NCSL research analyst.
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The want to raise every tax under the sun yet make it impossible for business to prosper. They cannot understand that bureaucrats do nothing in creating wealth, they are parasites.
Send the Obomba's to Africa where they'll do the most good.
There's a few good fish and chips places in Kenya and South Africa!
The chickens will bome home to roost with a vengeance when the money simply runs out. We are living the last chapters of Atlas Shrugged. I highly recommend your own “Galt’s Gulch”. This will not go down easy.
The state of Indiana as a whole does not want to raise taxes without corresponding tax cuts and the Governor will not sign bill that do not follow this line.
Oh well, maybe they can do another story about California - with a Republican gov-voor-nator
Some legislatures believe, absolutely, that they were elected to run with every crackpot idea they've had since the third grade, even if they have never had a real job or been subject to the constraints of a personal household budget --- ever. Or even if they are aware that the best IQ they ever tested was 73...
One of the California criminals, just yesterday said,
Noreen Evans (D) Santa Rosa [Calif]
Well, there is this mantra out there – “live within our means” – and while that sounds really nice . . . and it sounds really responsible, it’s meaningless. Our means are completely within our control . . . We have just given away huge corporate subsidies in February; we have given away other tax reductions over many, many years; we’ve created tax loopholes; in good times, we routinely give away taxes, and then in lean times we never replace those tax deductions or close those loopholes. . . . So “live within our means” doesn’t mean anything. The fact is, we have a state with a population that have [sic] needs that we have a moral obligation to provide.
It took me a long time to sink in, an adult, running for public office, without the most basic tools of reason, knowledge, fiduciary responsibility, and the grasp that your election is not a license to abuse your personal lifestyle at public expense.
In addition to the most fundamental grasp of what "living within your means", means...
If you ain't got it, you can't spend it.
You just can't send the earners an open-ended demand for more money.You can feel all the moral obligations your tiny mind can conjure up; you just can't impose them on the entire job-earners of California.
Don't they teach simple stuff like that in high school any more?
Just the other day I "gave away" several hundred dollars. I wanted to mug this guy who was flashing a real roll... but I changed my mind, cuz I was feeling morally superior for a moment, there..
The problem you are experiencing is one of definition of terms. The subject polidiot confuses “your money” with “our money.”
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