Tag: Budget
The Very Serious Paul Ryan Budget
The very serious Paul Ryan released his magical deficit reduction plan yesterday. Cutting taxes = deficit reduction and ending Medicare = JOBS.
The Wilmington State of the City Tantrum
Last night, Mayor Jim Baker of Wilmington was scheduled to deliver his annual State of the City Address to the City Council and the public. As always, he had prepared remarks and started with an overview of the state of the city’s budget and his plan to deal with the budget shortfall. He pretty quickly abandoned those remarks to deliver an explosive tantrum at the Wilmington City Council, castigating them (and blaming them) for the increased tensions and difficulties in getting administration initiatives passed.
New State Budget Proposal
The General Assembly and the Governor’s office have released their plan on state worker benefits and pensions.
Fair & Balanced
I’ve decided the media isn’t really biased politically as we think of it, but biased by class.
Look Who’s Back!
Mike Protack wrote an op-ed about state pensions for yesterday’s News Journal. Guess what his solution is (hint: it doesn’t involve raising taxes).
Has Delaware’s 2010 Biggest Political Blunder Already Taken Place?
Unless there’s an even bigger example of political and policy stupidity waiting in the wings, the answer is Yes, and it was announced in December of 2009. This example of political and public policy malpractice, unless reversed, will likely lead to the Democrats losing control of the State House of Representatives. And it will be on […]
Delaware Budget Hearing Dates Announced
State officials have announced November hearing dates for the FY 2011 budget cycle reports The Community News.
Why the Rightwing Jihad for Cutting Spending is a Loser
Read every word of Bruce Bartlett’s explanation.
Bartlett goes into great detail on how “cutting spending” is a pipe dream — either because the kind of stuff that conservatives always tell you they want to get gone won’t do much to balance the budget or because there are not enough votes to get rid of it. He starts with showing how much control the President and Congress respectively have over spending and ends with busting the myths about how Reagan or Thatcher cut spending.
Sports Betting Passes. Markell to Sign Bill This Week.
The Delaware State Senate today passed the sports betting legislation, 17 yes, 2 no, and 2 (Adams, Simpson), not voting. The Governor’s office released the following statement: DOVER — Governor Jack Markell today thanked the legislature for passing the bill that would reactivate a sports lottery in Delaware and for bringing the state more than $50 […]
The Morning After
March 19, 2009 will forever be remembered as the date that Delaware’s Gilded Age officially ended. An age that was literally ‘built on a house of (credit) cards’ is no more. The same institutions that buttressed Delaware’s financial strength, compliments of the usurious interest rates that Delaware had legalized, imploded and helped lead what in […]
NCCo Budget 2010
Yesterday evening, County Executive Chris Coons delivered his budget address. He took about 40 minutes to deliver this, including an extensive setup of his Listening Tour (which rhetorically at least) looks like the approval cycle and then he got to a summary of the bad news: Property taxes will increase an average of $8.00/month (I […]
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