Posted on 03/15/2011 8:06:01 PM PDT by BillKneer
Gov. Rick Perry has endorsed using $3.2 billion from the rainy day fund to help close the deficit in the current budget. “The Rainy Day Fund presently has approximately $8 billion in it” says Donna Garner
According to the Statesman.com The House Appropriations Committee prepared to vote Tuesday to use the rainy day fund money to close a $4 billion deficit in the current two-year budget cycle, which ends Aug. 31. Should the full House and Senate agree, the Legislature would have about $4 billion more to combat the state’s larger $27 billion shortfall over the next two years.
Perry said at the start of the session that lawmakers should not use any rainy-day fund money, but he has softened his position in recent weeks to say the money should be used as a last resort. By endorsing the House vote Tuesday, he in many ways abandoned his last-resort position, since the January-to-May session is only halfway over.
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Flip-flop!
Send the illegals back NOW! Voila...budget problems solved.
Literally make me what to throw up!
Yeah......that and raising property taxes two years in a row. Perry is a piece of crap.
Spending more than you have is not a rainy day, it’s just bad management.
What are they going to do in a year or so when all the rainy day money is spent and they are still in the hole?
Further, what are they going to do if an actual rainy day comes along?
School districts have to get their spending under control. Giving them another year is only going to make the situation worse.
When you are eduating half of the Mexican population on the backs of the Texan taxpayer, it costs money. When you give free healthcare to every illegal that crosses the border and grant full benefits to their anchor babies it also costs money.
It amazes me that our wonderful legislature never mentions this in their arguments to save all of those teachers and healthcare workers. We have been invaded and that costs money to provide for all of them.
“Send the illegals back NOW! Voila...budget problems solved.”
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If those immigration bills that Debbie Riddle and Leo Berman wrote, ever make it to good hairs’ desk,.. I bet you he will
veto them.
And then he will go have beers with some cheap labor lobbyists.
Perry has nothing to do with property tax increases.
Property taxes in TX are assessed by the County, City and ISD.
I’m not saying that property taxes aren’t very high, but it’s not Perry’s fault AND we don’t have state income tax.
Perry has his faults, but let’s not blame him for high property taxes.
I challenged my last increase. The CAD stated very plainly that they were mandated by Austin to raise property taxes. I view that as a mandate from the state government, (i.e. Perry) unless they were lying to me.
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