Quote from nutmeg:
More from the author to defend his position.
State governments recently finished the seventh consecutive quarter of rising tax receipts.
But many states have made deep cuts in expenses and, in most cases, budget gaps have been closed without reliance on one-time solutions.
The market dealt with the bankruptcies of Harrisburg, PA and Jefferson County, AL without seeing a backup in overall tax-free yields. It treated these bankruptcies as âone-off events, caused by specific problems of municipal malfeasance, and not as being indicative of overall municipal health. As we have also written, overall financial health is better at the state level than at the local level â but all levels of government have been learning how to do more with less.
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Do you guys believe this?