Move to connect state budget growth to inflation rate receives criticism 10/28/2005
Damon Boughamer
(Denver, Colorado) -- Conservative state lawmakers are leading the charge to limit the growth of the annual Pennsylvania budget to the rate of inflation. But, a Colorado state legislator says it’s a terrible idea. Brad Young is the former chairman of the Joint Budget Committee in the Centennial State, where a so-called “Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights,” or TABOR, came to be in 1992. He says Pennsylvania lawmakers have a chance to do what TABOR supporters didn’t do 13 years ago in his state.
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Young says drastic cuts have affected health care, primary and secondary education and more in Colorado. He did say that a better measure than inflation might be personal income growth for a bill like this, but adds even pinning budgets to that is probably bad government.