Eat up with stupid

I heard on the radio that in the state of New York they're having a budget shortfall of 9 billion dollars or something like that. The soon to be ousted governor wants to close parks, cut school spending, and what few social welfare programs they have left to make up the budget deficit. My question is, why the hell would they do that when banks and financial institutions in that state and in NYC are seeing record profits? Seems to me that a windfall profit tax on Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and the rest of those vultures would solve the problem.

Also, don't Walmart, Exxon Mobil, and other corporations that are flush with record profits doing business in the state of New York and other cash strapped states like Illinois and California? Don't pharmaceutical and medical insurance companies do business in those states as well? Instead of raising taxes on the working poor and families, how about state legislators get some balls (or ovaries as the case may be) and make these companies who are swimming in record profits pay up for a change. If they want to do business in a locality, then they need to invest in that locality and to stop bleeding it dry.

It's not like these companies are going to close up and move out of the USA or something if they are forced to pay their fair share of taxes. It boggles my mind that people are standing idly by while services are being cut and teachers laid off while banks and insurance companies rake in huge profits. If I had a kids and their school was getting shafted by the state budget while Walmart or Microsoft got tax breaks, I'd be even madder than I am now. I'd be taking to the streets to protest and I'd be encouraging others to join me in some kind of civil disobedience actions to get my state to make the money sucking corporations pay their fair share of state and local taxes. And people who wouldn't join me and others in doing that, well, they'd just be eat up with stupid.