|
Tue Jul 12, 2011 at 06:28 PM CDT
|
- As people beging to realize the impact of state budget cuts, they will begin to understand that members of the legislature are responsible for firing workers and letting others die. In GOP-speak they would be considered 'acceptable losses' to fulfill their "no new taxes" pledge.
- We don't talk about "The Big Lie" enough. Not only are we killing our state and our future with our budget, but we're systematically creating deficits that can no longer be fixed without lies. Eye on Williamson rounds up the numbers, but more importantly offers this point.
Until we can have a rational discussion about revenue and taxes, it's unlikely that any legislative change will change our current predicament. In 2010 the Democratic candidate for governor of Texas was telling us that we didn't have a revenue problem and all we had to do was scrub the budget. No! We have a revenue problem. It would be great if one party would start saying that.
This budget is already beyond bare bones. We need more revenue to adequately fund our state government if we still believe in free public education, affordable higher education, affordable health care, elder care, etc.., and build new infrastructure.
The only question left is how bad does it have to get before we have that discussion?
- Alabama's anti-gay Republican Attorney General caught by his wife have sex with a gay male assistant. Sounds like someone might need to call Rick Perry for how to handle a gay sex scandal.
- So how many people are using smart phones and in what ways? Pew just released a new report. Go read it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
