Fiscal conservatives, who work industriously to create wealth, weather financial storms well; until the profligate progressives, who want to party and spend, get hungry enough to maraud. JLF President and Chair John Hood today said this of developments with the state’s attempt to balance its budget:

Legislators have reportedly reached a budget deal that includes, among other things, stealing money from charter schools — perhaps even retroactively.

After all, we do need more and higher-paid administrators to administrate other administrators while kids fight and get stoned in the public schools.