Are there any good choices??

I think that there are many things that are contributing to the budget shortfall. I think that we need to find where we are willing to cut and even make the hard choices.  We as citizens also don’t want to pay anymore taxes.

There are some ideas that are currently floating around. Some suggest that we legalize certain types of gambling, others that we should close schools and increase class sizes. Both options are viable but neither is a perfect option.  Raising taxes is also another route that we could go, but not everyone can afford the taxes that we have now. Also some Texans are still out of work and are scrapping by and need to be on government assistance so that is another program that we still need. Some students can only afford go to school if they have financial aid. Medicaid and Medicare are very important to the care of the young and the old.

So where to begin our search; for ways to cut spending, who has the right to say what stays and what goes.  Nobody wants to give, and everybody wants to keep what they want. Who gets to decide what programs go, and which ones get stay?

These days money is hard to come by. So we have to try harder and harder to make the money that we have to go to all the programs that need funding. That is not possible so there has to be some give and take from all sides. That is not occurring but hopefully in the future we will find a solution that suites everyone.