If politicians in both parties knew about the looming $1 billion-plus state deficit last year, knew about the massive tax increases and spending cuts that would be required, and conveniently didn't tell voters much about them until after the election, they were lying.
If they just didn't know the state was facing billions of dollars in shortfalls in the coming years - something that had been common knowledge for years - they were stupid.
So which is it?
As the special session of the General Assembly kicked off last week, there was obviously a lot of talk about the...
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