The Union Leader writes a companion editorial to today's Op-Ed by Josiah Bartlett Center Chairman Eugene Van Loan, taking a look at recent history, and concluding that Gov Lynch's failure to veto a bill he said he opposed has contributed to the state's current budget mess:
If you want to know why legislators this week will either massively increase taxes or create slot-machine casinos for the first time in state history, this is your answer. Last year they passed an education funding formula they knew the state could not afford to finance, and Gov. Lynch let it become law.
Rep. David Hess, R-Hooksett, the deputy minority leader, said last year that the formula "has absolutely no funding mechanism in there. It's an invitation to broadbased tax."
He was exactly right. The formula ratchets up state education aid every year regardless of the state's ability to pay.
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