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rities is now in order. If we cannot build all the prisons or roads or dormitories or mental health institutions or medical laboratories that are needed to serve the state’s six milion citizens, then somebody has to go wanting and, human nature being what it is, people who go wanting are usually not very happy about it.
Additional money could be raised by the time-honored practice of raising taxes, but that is politically unthinkable coming on the heels of tax increases of the Baliles years and a hue and cry by the citizenry about high taxes. So the only alternative in balancing the budget is to dash the hopes of many interest groups who think the extra millions they ask are absolutely, positively the very least they need to get by.
For Wilder, however, the situation may not be all bad. If a budget crunch had to come, he was fortunate to have it arrive before he took office. People are already saying what a shame it is that he had to in
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