After 20 days of debate and delay, legislators and the governor have finally reached agreement on a new state budget. The question is why it took lawmakers so long to perform responsibly. The answer seems to be stubbornness.
What was so difficult about approving this year's budget on time? Nothing that could not have been settled long before the April 1 deadline.
In the end, the legislators agreed on a budget that turned out to be almost a carbon copy of the one they had prepared for approval on April 1, the day talks broke own.
For the next 20 days, while agreeing on nothing of substance, lawmakers did more harm than good. One example: Assembly …
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