Under the Dome: Berger: Budget delay is incompetence

Under the Dome

July 14, 2009

Senate Republican leader Sen. Phil Berger said it’s another example of Democrat’s incompetence that the state doesn’t have a budget 14 days into the fiscal year.

“For the average person, when they have a deadline and they need to get something done, they are held accountable,” said Berger, an Eden Republican, at the weekly Republican news conference.

House and Senate Democrats, who control both chambers, are engaged in tough negotiations over how to balance the budget when the state is facing a steep drop in revenue. Democrats agree on the need to raise up to $1 billion in new taxes to avoid what they say would be devastating cuts to education and social services. They don’t agree on which taxes to raise.

Republicans say new taxes will hurt state residents and the economy and the state should cut its way out of the budget crisis.

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