PA State Budget Details Revealed and It is Not a Pretty Sight
July 4th, 2008 | by BGuzzardi |Blog Penna. State Budget Details Revealed by Commonwealth Foundation and it is not a pretty sight: the budget is being voted on 4th of July. Sadly, we will be less free to spend the money we earn and save and invest.
The House Appropriations Committee (both Democrats and Republicans) released the line items in the budget late into the night on Thursday. They will attempt to vote on the legislation today – i.e. the 4th of July. Note: the Continental Congress had two weeks to review the Declaration of Independence, which is a far shorter document.
Here is the House Republican spreadsheet in PDF.
CF has put the numbers into Excel, available here (CF doesn’t warrant accuracy on data entry errors).
As CF has noted on numerous occasions, some of the worst programs – and easiest to cut – are the corporate welfare schemes knows as WAMs. Yet not only are WAMs back in the budget agreement, they are at a higher level than any of the three budget version (House Democrats’, Senate Republicans’, or the Governor’s). What exactly did they negotiate?
Here is the latest WAM spreadsheet