...On the chopping block (click title to entry - thank you) to date: $400 per student in K-12 education, a 15 percent "emergency" budget cut to an already overburdened system for the developmentally disabled, reduced unemployment compensation, severe , nearly reductions in health care for the poor, $400 million in higher-education funding lost, sorely needed money for children's protective services gone, and land preservation and Everglades restoration halted. And that is just for starters.
Gov. Rick Scott and the Republican-dominated Legislature are being myopic in their single-mindedness toward balancing the budget, at the expense of the most needy and the most vulnerable in our state.
GO AFTER $2.4 BILLION LOSS
There is another way, one that would cover a substantial part of the budget shortfall: collecting Internet sales taxes....
Here again, the Middle Class and Poor are the victims for the 'feel no pain' wealthy and Wall Street.
NO EQUITY in the Republican approach to cuts and tax hikes. It is one thing to cut when necessary, it is quite another to cut services to vital needs of a state, while the wealthiest of citizens feel no pain and have resources to supplement their own lives where government leaves off.
NO EQUITY in the Republican approach to cuts and tax hikes. It is one thing to cut when necessary, it is quite another to cut services to vital needs of a state, while the wealthiest of citizens feel no pain and have resources to supplement their own lives where government leaves off.
