Missouri has a budget surplus:
Missouri could be sitting on a $320 million budget surplus because of higher-than-expected tax revenues and lower-than-expected spending during the recently concluded fiscal year.
Lawmakers had intended to leave about $200 million unspent when passing the state’s $21.5 billion operating budget for the 2008 fiscal year, which started July 1.
Funny, it’s the heartless Matt Blunt and the Republicans in the legislature that cut the budget, but it’s Missouri that has the surplus.
Never fear, though, our elected troughhogs are working to change that:
Unless lawmakers take additional action, that money will remain unspent. But politicians already are proposing ways to use part of that surplus.
I call racism. What do lawmakers have against being in the black?
