They've been so unabashed about making them permanent. Now that it's a visible piece of their budget, it makes it more front-and-center.

We think this is a very restrained budget.

unabashed partisan zealot.

What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

Union issues by and large are payroll issues, which are very visible in the state budget and in turn make it easier to demonize. But it's a very one-sided argument to attack labor as if there is no such thing as corporate contributions.