Have you visited www.statebooks.org yet? Check it out for the latest on state economic and fiscal policies
Some good news today:
Colorado Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter announced that he is working with state Treasurer Cary Kennedy (D) and Rep. Don Marostica (R-51) to make government more transparent by putting Colorado's revenue and expenses online
10 Governors have signed a letter to Congress opposing the proposal to abolish the secret ballot on union voting and bring back institutionalized intimidation known as card-check
Florida was able to deal with their overspending problem with no tax hikes.
But, as usual, state governors still want to hike taxes:
Maine Gov. Baldacci has unleashed a budget with a $4.1 increase in fees charged by the departments of Conservation, Marine Resources, and Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and an increase in the smokeless tobacco tax. and Georgia Governor Sonny Purdue is trying to convince the legislature to create a new tax on hospitals.
California teachers (AKA Communist Propaganda Agents) have unleashed an initiative to hike taxes, while Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration issued a plan to close many state offices on the first and third Fridays of each month , while in New York a Queens assemblyman has proposed a four-day workweek for some state employees to help offset the $15 billion budget deficit faced by New York in 2009. New Yorkers might instead want to look at the fact that New York City employee wages growing twice as fast as those in private sector with the average New York City employee cost the city $107,000 a year in wages, health insurance, pension and other benefits in the 2008 fiscal year, an increase of 63 percent since 2000, according to a new report.
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