It’s B-Day in Olympia, and not likely a happy one, as the Senate introduces its general operations budget at 10:30AM, while the House introduces its transportation budget at noon. The smart money is on an all-cuts budget coming out of the Senate, with, of course, Seattle and light rail getting screwed by House transportation planners.
We’ll soon see.
UPDATE:
The TNT’s Political Buzz blog wins the local prize for first word on the Senate’s budget proposal:
Senate Democrats just unveiled their budget proposals, documents that proposed to close a $9 billion gap between tax collections and planned spending by freezing public school and state workers’ pay, closing a prison, eliminating 7,000 state jobs and lowering enrollment at colleges by more than 10,000 students.
Still waiting to see the specifics.
The first budget proposal you see will be an instrument that is merely one-half negotiating position and one-half political grandstanding.
Now we will find out more about the extortion plan.
Hold on to your wallets!
It’s coming.
Old people will die, children will starve…
All things the vast majority wants will be held hostage for major tax & fee increases.
It’s all so predictable.
@2 Cynical’s whining is MUSIC to my ears! I hope they raise taxes on commercial property owners and absentee landlords who fuck goats.
Schmudget has a little blurb about the budget up and the promise of more to come.
http://schmudget.blogspot.com/
Rog–
You seem to always want to take from others…except yourself.
Envy & Jealousy are no way to finish out your days on earth.
However, since you are an Atheist, I guess it doesn’t matter…nor does anything.
You die and rot…that’s it for you buddy.
Too bad…doesn’t have to be that way.
The economy is not a zero-sum game.
Never has been as evidenced by GDP Growth.
Grow the pie Rog!
Then risk capital and work hard to get your hunk.
It won’t be long before Mr. Klynical is entertaining us by giving us stock tips while speaking in tongues.
@6
WWJB? (What Would Jesus Buy?)
Seattle PI has some links as does the Times.