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10 states face budget crises, study warns

Federal and State governments own 45% of California. The feds and state need to start selling their land to private buyers to generate income. The feds and state need to set budgets on tax collected and not on tax hoped for. Do not spent it before you get it.

Government at every level must accept that this is a long term condition and not to take it lightly and think that by raising taxes it will fix everything, like our Utah legislators contemplate. Shortfalls are every where, from the lowly worker to the richest man in the state. No one is immune and the economy is in a state of doom, like it or not.

The only recourse states and cities have is to cut, cut, cut, spending and freeloading. You have less, offer less and you don't have a choice and stop looking for spikes in the economy and call it a recovery. The economy is flat and we are broke.

Pew has named Utah as one of the best managed states in the country. Our legislators deserve credit for making the tough choices to keep a balanced budget. Attention to Utah's AAA bond rating has saved taxpayers millions of dollars as well.

Utah might not be one of the ten most susceptible to problems lurking for other states, but we have our own problems: large numbers of student per classroom, an underfunded state pension program, double dipping state hired employees costing taxpayers hundreds of millions....

The Legislature can address many of these issues this session. Lets hope they do the right thing.

Utah has been very frugal and we have done without alot of the perks and spending the other states have had. We are better off because of it but if the federal government bales these states out it sends a terrible message.