Wrong way to balance state budget

Sunday, May 12, 2002

KENNETT, Mo. -- Missouri has been heading toward a fiscal apocalypse for several months. From time to time, a stern-faced official issues his dire warning that repeatedly bears the same message. Depending on the skill of the speaker's director of communications, the emphasis of the announced impending crisis is the result of one or two factors or a skillful blending of several circumstances.

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