Spending Cuts Announced, While Handouts Continue

State's announcements of buyouts, early retirement bonuses, and layoffs are contradicted by bragging about corporate welfare handouts.

Last month, I wrote about how Governor Kelly Armstrong’s direction for spending cuts and reducing payroll to right-size state spending was appropriate:

Governor's Budget Guidance Appropriate

One of those pieces was related to creating incentives to encourage state employees to leave voluntarily in order to reduce payroll in the least painful way possible, which has already started based on a …