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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: DavesM who wrote (13369)10/22/2003 9:15:37 AM
From: LindyBill   of 793883
 
I wondered what the Alabama Governor had done when he lost the vote for a tax raise. John Derbyshire just got back from there, and he tells us the refreshing answer.
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Alabama: Governor Riley called a special session of the legislature (this is one of those sensible states where the legislature's normal session is limited to a fixed number of days — two per annum would be fine with me, but Alabama allows 30 days in a 105-day period), and they set about cutting state spending! Private agencies that have been getting state money for years will now get none. "Teacher professional development" boondoggles (i.e. get a Ph.D. while drawing a state salary) have been cut; so has "classroom technology" (i.e. computer games to occupy your kids while the teacher works on his Ph.D. thesis); so have welfare services. Can we get Pataki and Bloomberg down here for some lessons?

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