Comptroller Drops Dimes
January 8th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
Looking away for a second from Craddick vs. Pitts: Pandemonium at the Podium, the state comptroller announced a budget surplus of $14.3 billion for the next two years. Susan Combs, just a week removed from starting the job, called her office’s report (in PDF format) “a solid, conservative estimate” in light of the expected slowdown in some sectors of the state’s economy, consistent with national trends.
Whether any of the “surplus” goes toward restoring the public services slashed in the 2003 session or instead goes to ever more tax cuts may depend on that leadership struggle in the House, which has received a bit of attention.
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