This is a lefty rag.
Seems to be a lot of that down there nowadays...
How about this?
Is this a lefty rag too?
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Texas budget shortfall widens to $18 billion (2011 'to be painful)
star-telegram.com 5/11/2010 DAVE MONTGOMERY
AUSTIN -- The state government's fiscal outlook worsened Tuesday as the chief budget writer... said a projected shortfall facing lawmakers is at least $18 billion.
Chairman Jim Pitts, R-Waxahachie, was considerably higher than previous projections and came on a day filled with mostly bad news as Pitts' committee looked toward the looming budget crunch.
Straus mentioned a number of possibilities to consider, including having unpaid furloughs for state employees, moving to a four-day workweek, freezing top-level state salaries and imposing a moratorium on proposed new programs that would add to the state's spending needs.
....lawmakers will examine revenue-raising options such as expanding gambling, increasing fees and eliminating some tax exemptions.
The state's gloomy budget picture is largely the result of tumbling state revenue because of the nation's economic downturn.
Lawmakers will also face demands to increase state school aid because of declining school property tax revenue at the local level.
..... "We cannot balance a budget with cuts alone."
....lawmakers should lift some of the tax exemptions and suggested an increase in the gasoline tax....
d2 likes lefty rags as long as they are trashing a state that is far more conservative than his own.
He knows that Texas cannot even aspire to being the cesspool California has become.
Jealousy is an ugly thing, isn't it? ;-)
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