Texas Budget Shortfall

Anybody who follows just a little of the news media in Texas has probably heard that there is a big budget shortfall.
The best predictions are showing about 28 billion and this may be much higher as we approach the legislative session in January. Texas have to cut spending in some fashion, so what to do? Some options are there but will we agree on them, here is the question. Most people on survey want cut spending, those who says that don’t really realize that it will probably touch education, or even scarier Medicaid. If those have to happen they will bring a whole set of other problems in the future that will require a lots of effort to fix. Unfortunately, those two options are where the state of Texas spends the most. Since most of other diverse taxes like increasing fees, allowing gambling, and other form of revenue will have minimal impact on the budget shortfall. Touching on education is just going to be a bad idea especially for Texas that cannot already be proud of its education system since it’s one of the last one ranked statewide. Medicaid is just like putting innocent people to death, sometimes unplanned things can happen to anybody’s life, and a little help on health is all I would ask for because this is the dead last most important thing after all.   Texas got this shortfall because of previous mistakes, but don’t make the same mistakes again especially knowing this will make the next budget even shorter than ever. I hope that Texas will manage this situation wisely.