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Lawmakers’ drunken-sailor spending spree is sure to bankrupt New York
NY Post
State lawmakers must be smoking some of that wacky tobacky they legalized, because the one-house budget bills they passed this week are utterly off the rails.
The bills came in response to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s spending scheme and upped her $233 billion bottom line by a jaw-dropping $13 billion.
Lawmakers are looking to shell out nearly a quarter of a trillion bucks — $246 billion — for the state fiscal year starting April 1.
It’s pure madness — an Olympic leap of $73 billion, or about 42%, over just five years ago.
Heck, Bidenflation looks tame by comparison: Prices have risen “only” 23% in that time.
But then, money grows on trees, right?
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