The State newspaper stated the obvious last Wednesday when discussing the budget cuts Gov. Nikki Haley proposed in last week’s State of the State. She proposed $120 million worth of cuts to a budget hole of $830 million. Cutting the Arts Commission and SC ETV is frivolous, if not idiotic, because the savings from not funding them would be like putting 1000 men in Leonidas’ abyss from “300.” Serious people would pull an Illinois and broaden the tax rates and raise revenues in a sensible way, even if they didn’t like it. Then again, we have nutcases running our state.
— Austin Jackson, Third-year political science student