Wonder where our tax money goes? Del. Harry Morgan (R-Middlesex) is one of the mavericks who has the facts. (I can\u2019t find the web link, but here\u2019s an excerpt from the Hampton Roads Daily Press story):<\/p>\n
Since 2001, the state has enrolled 44,000 more people into Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for the needy and disabled. It has 36,000 more children in public schools, 12,000 more students in state colleges and universities, 4,600 more state-responsible prisoners, 1,900 more kids in foster care and 15,000 more children in FAMIS, a health insurance program for children of working families.<\/p>\n
Last year, the state closed a $2.1 billion gap by leaning on one-time fixes – nearly 45 percent of the actions that it took can’t be duplicated this year.<\/p>\n
The required and high-priority items for the next two years carry a price tag of nearly $1.5 billion. That doesn’t include pay raises or three new prisons to be built in response to mandatory sentencing guidelines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Sen. Brandon Bell (R-Roanoke) has an answer<\/a> for Virginia\u2019s budget problems.<\/p>\n
Christina Nuckols of the Virginian-Pilot has a good story<\/a> on sales tax exemptions. <\/p>\n
Who\u2019s taking taxpayers money<\/a> because of the budget impasse? <\/p>\n
Here\u2019s an idea<\/a> how to pay for goods schools: Fatten our kids<\/p>\n
Virginians are singing the same sad song<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wonder where our tax money goes? Del. Harry Morgan (R-Middlesex) is one of the mavericks who has the facts. (I can\u2019t find the web link, but here\u2019s an excerpt from the Hampton Roads Daily Press story): Since 2001, the state has enrolled 44,000 more people into Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for the needy… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}