Mississippi Republicans and trickle-down taxes

Mississippi Republicans love to talk austerity.  After all, it plays well on the national scene where there are $1,000.00 hammers to talk about and whatnot.  But when creating the our state's budget, Mississippi Republicans flat out ignore that Mississippi's budget isn't full of pork like the federal budget.  They do things like slash funding for education, as if that's some sort of luxury item that we can get by without.  (But hey, maybe they're right. Republican Speaker Philip Gunn will appoint you to lead the Education Committee even if you're a college dropout.)

What's the result of reduced funding at the state level?