It's not a surprise to those of us who have been watching it grow, stagnate, and then grow some more. But when the State of Indiana closed out its books for the fiscal year last week, the news about it still should have made more of an impression on Hoosiers than it did.

Indiana ended the year with $6.1 billion in reserves.

That news should jolt taxpayers. But it doesn't. I don't know why it doesn't. But I will keep trying to make sense of it until the day Hoosiers clearly understand the terrible news.

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