EDITORIAL: Legislative reform needed
By yet again passing a completely unbalanced "budget," the Republican leadership of the
That must include the elimination of gerrymandering to create competitive elections so that these woefully ineffective legislators truly can be held accountable. Then, the numbers of seats in the 203-member House and 50-member
But first, this year's budget.
The state has a roughly
Rather than eliminating the yawning corporate tax evasion scheme known as the Delaware Loophole and reducing the corporate net income tax rate to spread the tax burden and generate more revenue, rather than taxing the natural gas industry the same way that every other gas-producing state taxes it, rather than reforming the tax structure generally to better fund schools at the state level while more fairly distributing the burden, Republican leaders plan instead to strap the state deficit to the backs of the poor, in several ways.
In addition to borrowing about
Medicaid is the state/federal program that pays for health care for 1.6 million poor and elderly residents in
Why not just cut to the chase and place satellite casinos directly inside nursing homes?
The notion that
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