Smoking Dope in Madistan

All you really need to read is in this graf:

State agencies are asking for $4 billion in additional spending and an more than 500 new full-time positions over current levels in the next biennium, according to Legislative Fiscal Bureau analysis of state agency budget requests.

Right number, wrong direction.

It's a negotiating ploy, of course. Except the agencies are negotiating against the taxpayers who have already purchased the pitchforks, torches, tar, and feathers.