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The World Socialist Web Site reports
Three US states--New Jersey, Maine, and Illinois--with a combined population of 23 million people entered a new fiscal year [July 1] without a state budget, forcing widespread shutdowns of public services, state offices, and schools, as well as the closure of state parks on the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
In a fourth state, Connecticut, Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy ordered across-the-board spending cuts totaling $2.1 billion after the legislature failed to pass a balanced budget. Malloy's cuts include the elimination of summer youth employment programs and rental assistance for low-income families, as well as a reduction in education funding.
Six more states entered the new fiscal year without a final budget, but without, as yet, any significant shutdown of state services: Delaware, Massachusetts, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin. Cuts are to be expected in all of these states if new budgets are not enacted by July 5, the first workday after the holiday.
[...] In a display of elitist arrogance, [Republican Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey] spent the weekend with his family at an official residence in a state park that had otherwise been closed to the public by his own executive order.
[...] In Maine, Republican Governor Paul LePage ordered the first statewide shutdown of government services since 1991 after the legislature failed to bow to his demand that it adopt a new, two-year, $7 billion budget without any tax increases.
In a brazenly antidemocratic action, LePage and Democratic and Republican state legislators had already agreed that the new budget would repeal a measure approved last November by the votes of more than 357,000 people in a statewide referendum. The referendum imposed an additional three percent income tax on the wealthiest state residents--those who make more than $200,000 a year--to increase funding for public education.
Additional Coverage: ABCNews
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @05:27PM (9 children)
Despite the fact that people are engaging in genuine discussion, the users of this website still mark them as "Troll".
What a shit website; I seriously don't know why I bother coming back here—I must be a masochist.
Please, admins, come up with a better system for managing the discussion.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Lagg on Wednesday July 05 2017, @05:49PM
If you leave you're just going to encourage bad mods. You shouldn't have been -1 Troll'd and I don't think it qualifies, it was a simple expression of opinion. (to which I have no opinion because it feels fallacious to say it's a business and managed like one but not really)
That too is why the system isn't as terrible as other places.
You should have been Disagree'd though if anything. That's what it's there for.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @05:52PM (1 child)
At least it isn't as bad as that other green site. Back to the subject... New Jersey is a fchking joke, a goverbater that shuts down shit when he gets butthurt.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @07:17PM
Yes New Jersey is a sick joke. But the reason is not the governor, it's the fact that property taxes here are higher than mortgages in other states! So even if you pay off your mortgage, you are in essence paying rent to live in your own home. Don't give me the BS that it costs blah blah blah, whatever the fuck it costs, it shouldn't cost this much! Paying grand a month to live in your own fucking house? really? And the kicker is NJ also has SALES TAX and INCOME TAX. That is the fucking joke. NJ has never met a tax it didn't like.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 05 2017, @06:01PM (4 children)
Better than democracy? Okay. All hail our new benevolent moderation dictator, Me.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday July 05 2017, @06:56PM (1 child)
I was expecting this.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 05 2017, @10:59PM
You underestimate my lack of ambition severely.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @08:03PM (1 child)
I would trust you in that position as far as I could throw you, and I've got a bum shoulder.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday July 05 2017, @10:51PM
I wouldn't trust me in that position and I know I'd go into it trying to be 100% objective.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 05 2017, @07:09PM
The only comment to get a Troll mod is now at Score: 1.
One "bad" mod! OMG the system is broken!
Maybe your whine directed people to upmod the comment. In that way you are a crucial cog in the system.