Governor McDonnell has a brief piece in the Wall Street Journal outlining how his administration and the General Assembly managed to tame the state’s budget crisis. Some of the actions are praiseworthy (like having new state employees pay into their pension plan). Others, however, are not, such as his contention that the budget was balanced without a tax increase:

…we cut a wide variety of programs (including in education and health), reducing state spending to 2006 levels. As a result we closed that shortfall without a tax increase…