Already, there is a gnawing back-of-the-mind feeling that this may be the first Legislature we’ve seen in recent memory that has been elected to take things away from the people they represent.
That puts a whole new face on the Legislature which generally people elect in hopes that their state government is going to do nice things, fix problems, make things, well, better and more convenient for all of us.
Now, this cutting of services isn’t going to be the way it will be presented, of course. But very practically, this will be the session where budgets, and the services they provide, either get cut or the cost of those services gets shunted to other units of government that don’t have a link to the State General Fund where the state keeps its tax money.