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The Texas GOP and the Texas budget
10 hours ago ago from Eye on Williamson
Jason Embry had a good article about the budget conundrum we're facing in Texas during the next budget cycle, Because of shrinking revenue, Texas may need $15 billion to balance budget . Embry does a great job of pointing out how we got here the tax swap of 2006 has never produced the money that was projected and created a structural deficit. And what the GOP leaders priorities are. It's starts out showing how Lt. Gov David Dewhurst is ...
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16 hours ago ago from Off the Kuff
Same song , I forget which verse. As compared with a year earlier, sales tax collections were down 14.4 percent in November, and those kinds of returns have hastened budget-cutting talk. But what's really driving the conversation is a decision that lawmakers made in wealthier times to put property tax cuts at the top of the state's permanent priority list. In 2006, facing an order from the Texas Supreme Court, lawmakers passed a ...
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19 hours ago ago from Tab Right
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20 hours ago ago from Bobert the Hoosier expatriate
One of the benefits of living on the west coast is that I didn't have to stay up late to watch the big cloture vote on health care reform in the Senate tonight. Congratulations, America. Your government isn't quite as dysfunctional as the California state legislature. Not yet, anyway. Here in California, the state has been on the brink of bankruptcy as we deal with one budget crisis after another, and no one can fix it. Why not? Because the ...
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25 minutes ago ago from America's Watchtower
While reading one of my favorite blogs, Political Realities , I came across a post entitled Senator Ben Nelson will vote yes . I left a comment on the article, to which one of the authors of the blog, Mike, wrote a reply that got me thinking. He said: I’d add that the backroom negotiations have made it perfectly clear to Senate Democrats that it is not in their best interest to support any Obama initiative right out of the gate. ...
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Health Care Bill Clears Senate Test In 1:00 A.M. Vote
19 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
AP : WASHINGTON (AP) -- Landmark health care legislation backed by President Barack Obama has passed its sternest Senate test, overcoming Republican delaying tactics on a 60-40 vote that all but assures its passage by Christmas. The bill would extend coverage to more than 30 million Americans who now lack it, while banning insurance company practices such as denial of benefits on the basis of pre-existing medical conditions. THIS IS A ...
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7 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Okla. treasurer: State faces additional shortfall OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Oklahoma Treasurer Scott Meacham said Monday that even with budget cuts that have already been made, state government will face a $530 million shortfall this year. And things don't look much better for the next fiscal year, which starts in July. Meacham said lawmakers will have about 20 percent less in funding than they budgeted for the current fiscal year due to the ...
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2 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Study: Schools face shortfalls after stimulus ends ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Using federal stimulus money to avoid layoffs at schools is going to create a shortfall even more difficult for states and schools to contend with when that money runs out, according to a first-of-its-kind study released Monday. New York alone will see a $2 billion shortfall after stimulus money ends in 2011-12, and that could drive up some of the nation's highest local ...
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2 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal
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