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STATE BUDGET

| March 4, 2010 8:00 PM

There are going to have to be cuts in state spending, there’s no way around it. What shouldn’t be cut are essential services like law enforcement, corrections, education and emergency response. Everything else should be on the table: salary cuts, benefit cuts, reduced services, sell state owned land, privatize some public parks, end state owned liquor stores and let grocery stores sell liquor. Increasing taxes will only slow the recovery, while lowering taxes will create an incentive to do business in this state.

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