Editorial: Lawmakers, quit passing the buck on the governor's proposed budget and offer some solutions
 

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Gov. John Bel Edwards proposed a dire state operating budget on Jan. 22. Faced with almost $1 billion in expiring taxes, the governor proposed gutting the TOPS college scholarship program by 80 percent, cutting an additional $25.6 million in direct state aid to higher education, and slashing nearly half a billion dollars from the state?s already-strapped Department of Health & Hospitals.?