The Legislature is supposed to pass a balanced budget by June 15. Lawmakers not only ignore this law (don't they take an oath to uphold all laws?), but they haven't even balanced last year's budget yet. So don't expect a balanced budget for the new fiscal year to be passed by midnight Monday.
The key term is "balanced budget" because the Legislature keeps passing budgets and the governor keeps signing them, but they aren't in balance. That's what they did in February when they hailed that "breakthrough budget compromise." It was put together with smoke and mirrors.
Now the budget gap is $24.3 billion, and the state controller is again talking about issuing IOUs to pay the state's bills. What a mess.
HA HA Ha hee hee HA heh heh
lawmakers, deadline, balanced budget... heh heh hee hee, ho ho ho
You crack me up!
HA HA
Oh my sides hurt!!!
Kim-
Best post I've seen in weeks. Congratulations on capturing the "spirit" of all sides of this issue.
You can only get a bigger guffaw by adding "fiscally responsible".
Balanced budget? Who has time for trivia like that when there are important issues like cold medicine and motorcycle noise and tv commercials with which to deal?!