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If you think there is a choice, where, praytell, do you intend to get the money for creating such a program?  It's really easy to make a choice but how do you plan to pay for it?  The state no longer has reserves, they've spent that on pandemic response.  The state is going to have significantly decreased income next year.  [b]Where do you plan to get the money to pay for this program when every agency and department will be taking cuts to their annual budget to account for the revenue shortfall?
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It's all well and fine to say we've made a choice, but the choice was made by the circumstances.  You can't create an expensive program when you have no money to pay for it.  [/quote]

That's why the Kirwan bill, which Hogan vetoed, explicitly stated that if state revenues drop by 7.5% in a given year, the Kirwan plans would be put on hold and increases to education spending would be limited to the rate of inflation.

I.e., the General Assembly passed a bill that says no Kirwan when there's a budget shortfall, and then Hogan vetoed it on grounds that...there's a budget shortfall.

The reality is that he would have vetoed it even if state revenue had been projected to double next year. He was always going to veto it, regardless.[/quote]

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