First Step Toward Fiscal Responsibility This year we finally have a state budget that reduces state spending and is on time! Over the past eight years, the Rendell administration’s late budget tactics were used to drive state government spending higher and higher. One of the challenges we faced was a multi-billion dollar budget deficit. The budget deficit was addressed in this year’s budget by reducing spending with no tax increases and even included reductions in the job killing Capital Stock and Franchise Tax. This is the first budget that I have supported in 13 years because it takes the...