Letter to the Editor: Who pays when court fines legislature? Taxpayers do.

The state supreme court fined the state for not amply funding education as required by the state constitution.

I had hoped the state supreme court would have fined the legislators themselves $100,000 a day – but the court fined the state, which means the taxpayers have to pay this cost. Of course!

Now, if the court had fined the legislators personally, each one, taking money out of their pockets, then they all would have reached an immediate agreement yesterday when the court order was publicized.

However, since it is out of taxpayers’ pockets – well, there is more money where that comes from....