Donalde Frey News Today

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Masquerading as prudence Despite John Hood’s efforts to sound moderate, his Easter column mostly pushed a very conservative agenda (“The state has too much debt already,” April 4). Hood outlines our state’s large one-time surplus, then argues that very little of it should actually go to meet current public needs. Hood recommends tactics that masquerade as prudence: Namely, reclassify the surplus as “reserves” for some real or imagined need in the future, thus putti...