When Cutting Is All You Know

[TexasTowelie]

Here’s an analysis from Ross Ramsey on the Texas GOP’s inability to deal with the current budget situation, Analysis: Big Money, Little Ideas in Legislature.

You can make a perfectly reasonable argument for leaving the money alone, which is apparently what’s going to happen during this legislative session. But isn’t it strange that none of those statewide officials and legislators has come up with some fantastic scheme for all that cash? No big dreams? It could be a genuinely big tax cut, a transportation plan, funding for more water projects or public schools, or whatever.

The lack of such a plan is a tiny piece of evidence that none of the people serving in Texas government really wants to write a chapter in the history books. Method, motive and opportunity — all of the elements of crime and government — are present here.

I think he’s wrong. The GOP does have a “fantastic scheme for all that cash“, that at this point seems likely to pass, and will cause Texas huge problems in the future.

The problem the GOP will have in the long run with these tax cuts will far out weigh any success. The tax cut to average, non wealthy, Texans will be negligible at best. While the problems caused because of them will be easy for all to see.

The GOP, as it is currently run in Texas, is incapable of using the current budget conditions to set Texas on a road to long term success. They see government as the problem and cannot fathom a way to use government to help Texans.

http://eyeonwilliamson.org/?p=14596

[upaloopa]

1. When you say cutting and Texas I thought you

might mean moving calves.

[Gothmog]

2. It is tough living in Texas as times