Political scientist Jay Barth of Arkansas's HendrixCollege says Arkansas traditionally has a bare-bones budget, and so lawmakers had to either cut services or find new revenue to balance it.
During his first semester at HendrixCollege, he started UnCollege, a website dedicated to providing resources for and ideas on how to get an education without college, and dropped out.
Professor JAY BARTH (Hendrix College): That's what was kind of driving the desperation that I think everybody was feeling to get something done, to allow Medicaid checks to continue to go out, to allow education to continue to be funded, all of those kind of basic state services which were really coming under threat.