Steep cuts

1. Cat mover

People will get awfully creative when you raise their taxes 70% in a year, like IL gov Quinn did:

Caterpillar threatens to leave Illinois over taxes

A little competition, eh...

QOTD

“If Illinois doesn’t want your business, Texas does.”
“In Nebraska, we balance our budget by controlling spending, not by raising taxes."
“In South Dakota, you make a profit, and you keep your profit.”
- a little state sloganeering to IL businesses (link)

You can't put it any simpler than this: "The Illinois tax increase will cost Caterpillar’s 23,000 employees in the state about $40 million this year."
Gov Quinn?

2. Steep cuts

The media, Reuters in this case, assumes you are a blathering math-idiot:

NY Gov and lawmakers reach budget deal

Well, shit. We can put our big boy math pants on together.

"The fiscal 2012 budget is largely a victory for the freshman governor, a Democrat who utilized a number of unique tactics and raised the specter of a government shutdown in order to convince lawmakers to make steep cuts to schools and the state's Medicaid program."

Wow. That sounds pretty dire: "steep cuts".

STEEP CUTS!!!
[that's better]

Um, wait a sec... next paragraph.
"The budget cuts overall spending by 2 percent."

2 percent.
steep... yow, bill