fiscally conservative, but if you re dealing with a budget deficit, cutting revenue is bad for the deficit. it is not good for the deficit, it is bad for the deficit. it is not addition, it is subtraction. if we had full transparency about this, full understanding of all this, what s being done by the republican governors and legs tours in the states now would not be described in beltway media as fiscal conservatism. it would be described as provely gassy. as madness that could even get canadians excited enough to stand up and throw paper about. in michigan, faced with a $2 billion budget $1.8 billion to give tax breaks. in new jersey, they were faced with a $10.7 billion gauft. chris christie proposed $200 million in corporate tax breaks. in florida, faced with $4.7