21.   Pataki says the state can afford to offer the relief because it has controlled its spending and was experiencing economic growth.

22.   Property taxes are used mainly for school funding, and the state cannot afford to take much more of the education burden without raising taxes itself.

23.   Rep. Rob Junell, D-San Angelo, has maintained the state cannot afford to pay Green and has offered Green partial payments.

24.   Republican lawmakers are arguing for a tax cut, saying the state can afford to return some of the windfall to California taxpayers.

25.   Ratliff, chairman of the budget writing Senate Finance Committee, doubts that the state can afford new prisons given other budget priorities.

26.   Rusin was laid off with thousands of others because the state could no longer afford the communist policy of overstaffing the mines to provide jobs for everyone.

27.   State Rep. Rob Junell, D-San Angelo, has maintained the state cannot afford to pay Green and has offered Green partial payments.

28.   That makes it unlikely that the state also can afford to own a steel company, analysts said.

29.   The power generators like the idea because the state can afford to pay.

30.   The state can probably afford a tax cut.