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State budget woes even worse than announced?
By adamg on Fri, 01/23/2009 - 8:23am
The Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center warns that in addition to the $2.1 billion in cuts the Patrick administration has either already made or announced, the state will have to make up another $1 billion. And that, the center says, is "a best case scenario."
Via the Outraged Liberal, who isn't putting quite as much hope on a federal bailout as some state officials seem to be doing.
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Hat's off to the Mass Budget & Policy Center for continuing to give us the other side of the story, but I wish they would've led their paper with the "medium case" rather than the "best case" scenario, because there's very little to suggest that the best case is realistic.
We need to start talking about a modest state income tax increase. No one likes to hear about this, but in view of what's coming with this economy, important state services are going to be stretched to the max.