States Are Now Wrestling with the Biggest Budget Crisis They Have Faced in All of U.S. History

by Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog

Most U.S. states are seeing tax revenues completely and utterly collapse during this COVID-19 pandemic, and some are already begging the federal government for bailout money. Because if dramatic intervention does not happen, many states are going to have to start savagely slashing their expenditures, and that could mean unprecedented job losses on the state government level. Typically, state government bureaucrats make above average salaries and those jobs often come with very nice benefit packages. Once those jobs have been eliminated, they will not be easy to replace.

The tax revenue numbers that are starting to come in are nothing short of shocking. Just consider these examples…

Continue Reading at TheEconomicCollapseBlog.com…