Hot Link: Where to Start Cutting NY’s Bloated State Budget

March 15, 2010

Raymond J. Keating had an opinion piece in the Sunday New York Post titled “How to cut $9 billion.” The piece starts out:

When it comes to budget problems, the story never changes in New York.

While revenues are rolling in during good economic times, elected officials spend like drunken sailors. When the economy falters, well, they still spend like drunken sailors.

Assorted tax increases follow, like the big hikes passed last year, which only make matters worse by chasing people and businesses away from the state. And when things reach so-called crisis levels, budget gimmicks are dressed up as serious reform.

That’s where we are now…

Read more here.