Easy to be hard | Michael Tomasky

Ezra Klein has helped ruin my afternoon by directing my attention to this thoroughly depressing report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities about the parlous fiscal conditions of the states. A few points.

The report details service cuts, some of them quite drastic and some of them (to be honest) difficult but not catastrophic - the vast majority of them, of course, falling on lower-income people, who tend to be neither seen nor heard. It notes also that about a dozen states have...