Can you say anticlimactic?
Good, I knew you could.
The House voted 67-46 NOT to concur with the Senate budget proposal.
Conferees will be appointed.
The good news: The House and Senate have nearly a full month to negotiate.
The bad news: The House and Senate have nearly a full month to negotiate.
Background here.
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I should know this but I don't:
Is it now "anything goes" or are there legal constraints on what they're allowed to confer about. For example, could they cut the temporary sales tax, kill the temporary income tax increase, and then institute a new income tax increase that is larger and more progressive than the one already in place?
Hint hint.
Posted on June 4, 2007 9:07 PM
Well, there are rules that the generally try to follow.
In theory, they are only supposed to negotiate items that are in controversy between the two budgets.
So, for example, the Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro got $500,000 in both versions, so that should in theory be off the table.
But the taxes your asking about are different in the House and Senate versions. And while the spirit of the rule is they're suposed to negotiate the middle ground between the two, anything there is really fair game.
Although, I'm not really sensing a whole lot of enthusiasm for going up from where we are now on the tax rate.
Posted on June 4, 2007 11:00 PM
Skip should be happy more money for his group to make disappear. Our democrats at work, buying votes.
Posted on June 4, 2007 11:46 PM