Mr. Huebsch has a plan.
A commitment among Republicans to block any tax increases could mean a new two-year budget wouldn't pass the full Legislature, Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch (R-West Salem) said today.
...The current budget ends on June 30. If a new budget isn't in place by then, spending will continue at current levels.
Not that it's exactly a surprise. This has been tossed around for 6 weeks or so.
Forcing the State and the locals to live on last year's generous allocations of money (and preventing DarthDoyle from accelerating the State's slide into bankruptcy) is a valid option--and may be the best one.
Regular people occasionally do with less. The State can do so, too.
I'll be surprised if that happens. If it does, then Huebsch will show the state that he has some stones, something I don't think he has...but I hope I'm wrong.
ReplyDeleteIf he had real stones, he would send a budget to Pol Pot with spending cuts. But a long journey begins with a single step.