TX Budget Approved. UT tutition to go up at least 50%.

GreenVegan -- you really believe that don't you? you really believe a president controls the economic cycles....

A red herring, Max.

YOu can make deficits worse by having tax breaks when the economy is good like Dubya did in Texas. Then when the economic cycle turns down you have no surplus to help make up for budget deficits caused by the downturn in the economic cycle.

This shouldn't be too hard. Let's try this. A man is in a small business. He's been doing it for awhile, so he knows that sometimes he makes good money; sometimes not. When he has a good month or two he puts some aside to pay for expenses when he has a bad month or two.

 

BTW. good thing I just signed up for the Texas Guaranateed Tutiton Plan prior to the 5/23/03 deadline. Fortunately I could see the writing on the wall with the deficits.

Still don't like its effect., though I am immune from it. That is assuming that the Repubs don't try to renig on the Texas Guaranteed Tutition Plan. I see the conservatives are trying to do this in Colorado, but I don't think it will happen in TX for at least awhile.

 

Madmax, perhaps I was unclear. When Bush was Governor of Texas, the economy was good and he had tax cuts, failing to plan for a rainy day. These cuts have had a significant role in the tuition increases and cuts for such service as the thousands of poor kids who are thrown off of the CHIPS pProgram. I wasn't talking about his actions after he assumed the Presidency. Please note Bush's tax cuts in TX were a year or two before he left the governorship.

I wasn't really talking about Bush after he became president, though the Federal budget cuts are further aggravating state deficits.