Wednesday, October 22, 2008

From Wall Street to the Corner of Main and Gervais


So it turns out that reduced consumer spending means that we're going to have to cut about $500 million from the state budget this year. Apparently our state government receives about a third of its revenue each year from the sales tax. Oops. At least our legislature is cutting its budget instead of just running a deficit. That's refreshing.

3 comments:

M and M said...

Don't forget, 2006 was the end of property taxes for education.

The Blue South said...

Yeah, I was working at the state house then. That was a mess.

Weaver Beaver said...

Education in South Carolina, where?