slightly less doom and gloom than usual for a yahoo linked story...

[Taffy_is_a_Taff]

...it's about state budgets.

Right I'm now going to step back and let you all fight over it like you will, I'll be especially amused by what certain people who don't live in the U.S. have to say (for that matter I'll be quite amused by the opinions of some who do).

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051215/...state_finances

[master of the puppets]

...well i'm shocked, i could've sworn they were gettin worse by how the gov was talking about them, well i guess this is good but then again its only because the government of NJ decided to raise taxes (again(SOBs)).

[Xiahou]

Give us TABOR. When a government gets new revenue all it knows how to do is spend it. The only way to prevent that is to force them to give the extra back to the taxpayers.

After raising taxes in PA, what do they do when the budget stabilizes? Give us a tax break your say? Nope, they vote themselves pay raises.