Michael Stanley All Over Again

"Gov. Deval Patrick’s top budget aide said yesterday that the state is facing a “serious deficit” in the next budget year and that tax increases may be needed to close a shortfall expected to hit at least $500 million.
Administration and Finance Secretary Leslie Kirwan, who will file a new state budget in January, indicated that the state’s financial condition remains dire and that deep cost cuts or new taxes will be needed to balance the books in fiscal year 2009." - Boston Herald- October 18, 2007

I seem to recall a little phrase being bandied around while all of the Devaliens were sitting in a big circle, hands firmly wrapped around their manhood chanting ' Together We Can". It was that once Governor Rodney Allen Rippey gets elected that the citizens of our fair state would be " taxed back into the stone age". Is that a brontosaurus I see lumbering on the horizon?

Anyone with half the sense of a golf ball knew this was on the way. But they voted for him anyway. I can't recall any time in my 4 decades on this planet a time when there was more hand wringing and hats held out needing money. The T, roads & bridges, of course the children and now the state budget.

Here's my advice to Governor do-nothing. Go with the deep cuts option.