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Yes, this tweet is actually devoid of reality.

Nebraska is indeed facing a shortfall in their budget, but it is wholly of their own making. In 2023, lawmakers used the surplus to pass a personal and corporate income tax decrease. However, the surplus was largely due to one time Federal aid they received.

Now that the Federal aid has ended (and it ended because it was scheduled to end, not because Trump ended it), the tax revenues are not enough and the State is -$432M. They raided the rainy day fund for $150M, but all this does is delay the inevitable. The State was hoping that the decrease tax would spur growth and for the most part the State’s economy has been strong but steady, not exactly growing and nowhere near enough to cover this shortfall.

It’s very clear that the State has mismanaged the budget. You cannot use one time aid to fund long term tax cuts, that’s the intelligence of finding a lower paying job because you found a coupon. Nebraska’s Republican led State Legislature is pretty much the largest causer of harm to the State. Not to mention that they also passed LB 243 in 2023 which took a large amount of funding away from Schools, so outside of just ending public education, there’s not much more money they can extract from their favorite thing to extract money from.

But all that said, the State did it to themselves. No need for Trump to be involved.

“Can we stop talking about politics for a moment?”

“So, uh, does anyone like Furina from Genshin Impact?”

“HOLY SHIT, okay fine, let’s talk politics.”

Careful with that. As a workaholic who was on this style for a while, I got introduced to a thing called refeeding syndrome while out on travel for the company.

Nothing too terrible in my case, but one moment I was on-site explaining some programmable logic controllers that needed to be installed at site and then next moment I’m waking up in a hospital.

Your body can get really used to one way of doing things that when you shock it in some other direction (like having a big meal with the facility you’re at) it’ll ask you to have a quick nap while it figures out what to do with what you just gave it.

We obtained what we sought but at what loss?

Me who was a raging alcoholic as a teen.

“Y’all used humor?!”

Shit. Where you getting the money for so many cigarettes? Best I can do is drag a two pack of Swisher Sweets out over the week.