Spending is easy, the cuts are hard
Wednesday, December 17, 2003
You'll remember just months ago Gov. Bob Holden stood before the Legislature and gave lofty assurance that the state had cut spending to the bone and no additional cuts could be made. Gov. Holden used that reasoning to call for closing "tax loopholes" and wanted the Legislature to raise taxes to cover the shortfall. Gov. Holden then withheld funding from a number of state agencies including education.