What's the total budget? How severe are the cuts? How significant are the tax increases? You wouldn't know from this article, so I'm about to tell you.
The total budget is about $80 billion, so a 4.8billion hit is about a 5% across the board cut. If I were governor, I would make the cut. If your income went down by 5.5-odd percent, I'm sure you would grumble and pull through somehow. No big deal.
This article is talking as though these cuts would be the end of the world, and yet for some reason what would be cut is never explained. Local programs? What local programs? What percentage of local budgets is this?
How can we make a meaningful judgement on the budget crisis without knowing what the proportions are? The article strikes me as a special plea to raise taxes, but it doesn't give us alternatives. I find that shameful and almost certainly biased.
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