the aids education program i have proposed for the biennial budget carries a price tag of only $200,000. this cost represents an absolutely trivial percentage of the $10 billion the state spends each year and will have no impact on the state fiscal crisis. furthermore, the medical expense to the state associated with even one aids case is more than $100,000, so it is the most misguided, mean-spirited, and shortsighted of economies to deny this proposal.