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Repair bill may not cover state budget shortfall

By ASSOCIATED PRESS Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 5:45 a.m.

MADISON — The budget-balancing plan the Senate passed Tuesday would still leave the state nearly $1.7 billion short three years from now.

The nonpartisan legislative Fiscal Bureau delivered that news to Republican state lawmakers in two separate briefings just before the Democratic-controlled Senate voted 17-16 along largely partisan lines to pass it.

An Assembly vote was expected Wednesday.

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garyprimer
May 14, 2008 at 10:53 a.m.
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Maybe if everyone observed the speed limits, there would be less demand for gasoline and the price would come down a little.

turtlecreekguy
May 14, 2008 at 10:02 a.m.
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The only real solution to this problem (crisis, really) is a complete overhaul of the state's budget and system of taxation. Unfortunately, not a single legislator has demonstrated the wisdom or the courage to accomplish this.
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And how can some of them, with a straight face, propose that we compound this extraordinary problem by promising state run universal health care?

billnewbie
May 14, 2008 at 9:24 a.m.
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Isn't that the same budget deficit the governor was elected to fix 6 years ago?

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