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June 12, 2007
Budget Bills Pass Both Houses
Tom Humphrey has the rundown in today's Knoxville paper. A couple of key features are the half-cent reduction in the sales tax on groceries and a mechanism, authorized by constitutional referendum last November, that will enable local governments to enact a property tax freeze for low-income seniors.
Whenever I mention the words "state budget" in day-to-day conversation, I'm invariably met with some form of eye-rolling impatience; but this is important stuff, y'all. It's perhaps the primary reason we have legislative elections every couple of years. We delegate these men and women to the task of running the state. I claim no expertise on it, but I will say that I have become much more engaged in the facts and the process over the past several years.
According to the KNS article linked above, the House and Senate versions seem close enough for a quick reconciliation today, and then the General Assembly can adjourn its 2007 session.
Government | By joe lance | 06:11 AM