Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell prepared a state budget which included toll revenue from I-80 — even though tolling that interstate had not yet been approved by the federal government — and the legislature passed the budget. Subsequently, the request to make I-80 a toll road was turned down and now the governor and legislator are scrambling to find ways to “make up the shortfall”.
That’s not a “shortfall”, you idiots! It’s called spending money you don’t have!
Don’t any of you bright lawmakers remember your parents telling you, “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch”? It’s as basic as that, folks. You should never spend money you don’t have.
I have a suggestion for Harrisburg: Instead of trying to find ways to replace revenue you never had to begin with, why don’t you consider cutting out of the budget the inflated expenditures which relied on that nonexistent revenue?
Yeah. . . I thought that might be too simple a solution for you.
That’s not a “shortfall”, you idiots! It’s called spending money you don’t have!
Don’t any of you bright lawmakers remember your parents telling you, “Don’t count your chickens before they hatch”? It’s as basic as that, folks. You should never spend money you don’t have.
I have a suggestion for Harrisburg: Instead of trying to find ways to replace revenue you never had to begin with, why don’t you consider cutting out of the budget the inflated expenditures which relied on that nonexistent revenue?
Yeah. . . I thought that might be too simple a solution for you.
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