An On-Time Budget?
From the State Journal:
Despite having different opinions, leaders in the House and Senate say they can create a budget without a special session.
The legislature failed to pass a budget in regular session in 2002 and 2004. Public financing of political campaigns was the key sticking point in 2002. In 2004, lawmakers were unable to reach an agreement on proposed tax reform.
Think back to 2006. The budget that passed that year was a massive, bloated spending plan with $3.8 billion in new debt. The only way lawmakers got a budget passed was to hide in a room for a week or so and hammer out the details while the rank and file lawmakers were kept in the dark about the budget's contents.
Ernie Fletcher then signed the largest budget in Kentucky history into law. If this year's budget is smaller, it won't be because lawmakers decided to take it easy on taxpayers. It will be because taxpayers are already tapped out.
