re: #94 Indy GOP Refugee

It was acceptable from the time when people say that they want something, but don’t want to pay for it. So politicians have found ways to make that “happen”. Like unfunded pension obligations. Empty transportation trust funds. Taking rainy day funds and using them to plug general budget fund deficits. Refusing to raise fuel taxes to pay for infrastructure even though everyone knows that the taxes haven’t kept up with the costs to maintain that infrastructure, let alone improve it. Expanding lotteries and claiming that the money will go to education, and then diverting general funds meant for education to go to other purposes so that the education spending is the same or less than before.

This isn’t something new.