The Big Ugly

The Big Ugly
New York’s $131.8 billion budget.

A New York Times editorial observed recently:

Despite all of the talk of shared sacrifice and of not filling in long-term gaps with short-term federal stimulus dollars, Gov. David Paterson of New York and other Democratic leaders have produced a budget that is now up to $131 billion— a whopping $10 billion more than last year’s. …
Republicans who are now in the minority and had almost no voice in the secretive budget negotiations are calling it simply: “The Big Ugly.”
(This is not the first time that the term “The Big Ugly” has been associated with a New York state budget; in 1990, the nickname was applied to a much-debated $1.4 billion tax package.)


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