West Virginia has divided fiscal management. For the first time in eight decades, both houses of the legislature have gone Republican. They have been fiscally responsible with their legislative agenda.

On the other hand, we have a Democrat governor who has rammed through some tax increases.
That's not enough for him; he now proposes amending the state's constitution to do away with its requirement for a balanced budget, even though the record is clear: borrowing has been the road to ruin for those states with unfunded liabilities.