Government Versus Government: Opponents of Matt Blunt Waste Budget on Wasting Budget

Unsatisfied with the new educational funding plan, wealthy school districts that will receive less money are helping the state's and their budget shortfall by suing the state of Missouri to force it to give them as much money from its budget as they want. Jay Nixon explains its ultimate costs:

"The taxpayers of Missouri will continue to be forced to fund all sides of this expensive litigation, as well as the cost of the new funding formula," Attorney General Jay Nixon said.

Nixon's office said the state has spent about $600,000 so far on outside attorneys hired to help with the case, not counting the cost of its own attorneys' work on the case, which isn't tracked.

The school districts want the same ever-increasing amount of free money from the state as they've always had; they cannot handle the burden of budgeting nor convincing their local tax payers to pay more money. So they're wasting taxpayer money to waste taxpayer money.

Matt Blunt's office characterizes it correctly:

Blunt says those continuing with the lawsuit against the state are simply trying to force a massive tax increase on Missouri.

That's what it would need, and the best part is that the school districts would not have to obviously raise taxes among voters to whom the districts are directly accountable.