Gov. Matt Bevin unveiled the highlights of his proposed budget Tuesday. During his State of the Commonwealth and Budget speech, he mentioned eliminating 70 state-funded programs.
The budget zeroes out funding for a total of 70 programs as identified in the table below.
Many educational programs. What a shame! Seems like this scounrty wants our youth to become the most uneducated system in the world.
Why not end our leaders being able to vote themselves pay increases? How about we end the lengthy terms our Congress and Senate are allowed to serve consecutively?
How about the people of KY vote on these programs ending?
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Just a guess, but I’ll bet these are redundant programs or services better provided by the private sector, or in some cases, just unnecessary or poorly utilized. Just putting up a list of programs to be eliminated only tells about 20% of the story and gives a false perception of what’s going on. Which of these would you keep instead of funding state pensions? Better ask the folks who are about to retire which they would choose. Correcting the corruption and poor management of decades of liberal administrations might just be painful for some, but we’ll all be better off in the long run.