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Kansas Liberty: 06 March 2009
Hands off education? House Majority Leader fears the new numbers may be used to push a tax hike
New projections suggest Sebelius' cuts not enough to balance the budget
New budget projections developed by Kansas Legislative Research may force legislators to either make deeper spending cuts, including possible education funding cuts, or raise taxes to ensure the state’s budget is balanced at the end of FY 2010.
The new projections, unveiled late Wednesday, showed that spending cuts and other adjustments recommended by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius will not produce a balanced budget after all.
In fact, the projections suggest that if all the Governor’s budget-balancing recommendations were accepted, the state would still be about $80 million in the red at the end of FY 2009, and about $100 million short the following year.
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The legislators need to plan the cuts now and they are right-- education funding CANNOT be exempted. In fact, the state SHOULD make cuts and force budget decisions AND budgeting for schools back to local districts and school boards closer to the people where it belongs.
As the recession and depression get deeper-- as bad as it is already here the typical onset and subsequent recovery of the Kansas economy usually lags the national recovery. Assumptions about growth rates need to be kept low and subsequently spending cuts need to occur NOW.