"Both Kris Kobach and Governor Colyer have vowed to continue the same agenda that led Kansas to record budget shortfalls, cuts to education and a faltering economy".
If abolished or weakened, there are only three ways to make up the resulting shortfall: cut spending, raise taxes on the middle class, or pile it on to the national debt and leave it to our children and grandchildren who will inherit the consequences of the decisions we make now.
In a recent letter to governors, Kathleen Sebelius, the United States secretary of health and human services, pointed out that the health care law allows states with budget shortfalls to cut adults who are not disabled or pregnant and whose incomes are above 133 percent of the federal poverty level, which is $14,500 for an individual.
In a state that says it is already so short of public money it does not have enough to keep all the schools open and prosecute many criminals, Oregon took another drastic step this week to cover budget shortfalls: it cut off medications to thousands of schizophrenics, manic-depressives, drug addicts and others who are poor and have no health care.
Paying off the current shortfall will cut the marginally profitable airline's cash flow by about 400 million Canadian dollars a year.
A1 NATIONAL A17-21 States, Facing Shortfalls, Make Cuts Large and Small The states are struggling with their worst financial crises since World War II.
Now park employees have coined a term -- "the Chambers effect" -- for what could happen if they speak of budget shortfalls and cuts.
"When override ballot questions fail to pass, however, municipalities are left with budget shortfalls causing cuts in public services, school programs, public workers, and the like," the Fed study found.
The New York Botanical Garden, facing a $2 million reduction in city support and a 12% budget shortfall, will cut 49 jobs; it has also canceled its 2009 summer art exhibit, despite the popularity of last year's showing of Henry Moore sculptures, which led to an 8% increase in attendance.
The shortfall follows cuts in the numbers of training places in each year under the coalition government.
