Posted on 07/31/2007 1:11:11 PM PDT by iceskater
The Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis says Virginia is facing a $1.2 billion deficit over the next two-year budget cycle. The current budget, by official estimates, is $200 million short.
Institute Executive Director Michael Cassidy says the tax hike in 2004 did help Virginia's long-term outlook. However, since then, Cassidy says lawmakers have cut various taxes, taking away revenue.
Cassidy is not publicly advocating another tax increase to fix the situation. He claims he is just trying to get the debate started. The size of the deficit could be a big problem for Governor Tim Kaine, who wants to spend money to start a Pre-K program.
The General Assembly will pass the state's next two year budget during the 2008 session.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Another way of looking at and thinking about budget deficits is to inquire why spending hasn’t been reduced to help balance the budget - instead of raising taxes to balance the budget.
We didn't even have "K" when I started school. Started right out in first grade.
How did I ever survive?
“The current budget, by official estimates, is $200 million short.”
Headline to read; Virgina Slims Budget. State has a long way to go baby!
And so the drum beat for another round of tax increases begins.
I don’t think anyone in the General Assembly understands the words “budget cuts.” Clearly, it’s not part of their vocabulary.
It’s just a ploy to indoctrinate the children at an even younger age.
BINGO
Could increased budgets be because of ‘inflation’?
http://www.safehaven.com/article-8082.htm
Being Fed Bigger Bread Prices
by The Mogambo Guru
As the inflation in the prices of everything continues to outstrip “income after taxes and deductions”, standards of living are being eroded because people can’t buy as much stuff as they used to; their relatively static stream of discretionary income has lost buying power against rapidly rising prices.(more)
(This is my favorite part...gris)
“Shut your damned stupid mouth, you ugly little troll! Your problems are all self-inflicted, as you are the same drooling ‘I Love Big Government Creating Perpetual Entitlements’ moron that elected the Congressional morons that have spent us into the Hell Of Crushing Debt (HOCD) and who conveniently looked the other way while the damnable Federal Reserve created the money and credit to make that stupid, bankrupting spending possible! It’s your own fault, you ignorant little commie creep! You committed economic suicide, and in doing so have economically murdered the rest of us, you filthy piece of stupid, greedy, Leftist crap!”
We have to get them away from the parents. We need to make sure that they are good little Villagers. We have so much we want to teach them. Government Education
Am I the only person here who thinks this is total, absolute B.S.? It’s only been about three or four years since the last time they pushed this same lie on us!
We have a surplus and we don’t. Stop spending.
The “pre-K” type programs I’ve read about are private schooling scams. The proposals don’t fund expanding public schools downward from kindergarten.
The private schooling industry wants free government money. Big government appeals to Democrat politicians, phony “private” enterprise appeals to REpublican politicians.
Watch out when politicians talk glowingly about “public-private partnerships” These are the biggest scams.
It’s only been 6 months. They wanted to raise taxes for the *&@$#%$& roads back in January.
I think people need to start telling their reps in the GA “NOT ANOTHER DIME!!!!!”
Not to worry. Just keep up the good work rousting illegals from various counties of the Old Dominion and the problem will be solved.
They'll swim the Potomac into liberal Montgomery County, Merryland and everyone will be as happy as Chesapeake Bay clams....
Here’s the website for the group pushing this agenda. Looks like a bunch of libs and Warner admin leftovers.
http://www.thecommonwealthinstitute.org
Those Born 1930-1979!
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 30's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-Aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because .
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or chat rooms..........
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL!
If YOU are one of them . . CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
I agree....cut the budget. Amazing idea huh?
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