Governor Mills has proposed an $8.04 billion dollar General Fund budget. That is an 11 percent increase over the current $7.2 billion dollar budget. Governor Mills promised that this tremendous budget increase will be āsustainableā and that the massive expansion of Medicaid for able-bodied, child-less adults would be paid for without new taxes. I wish that this were possible, but the evidence says otherwise. I can think of six reasons why this budget is unsustainable. First, the Governorās budget spends 99.995% of all available funds. That leaves a cushion of just one nickel for every $1000 spent. This leaves basically…
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