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A Budget No-Brainer: Merge House, Senate Budgets to Eliminate Deficit

posted on in Spending & Taxes

As House and Senate leaders negotiate a final budget package for FY 2002-03, they should resist the usual temptation to “logroll” — to add in spending items favored by the other side — and instead accept the lower of the two chambers’ previously approved figures for every department as well as the higher of the two chambers’ previously approved fund transfers. With such “reverse logrolling,” lawmakers could balance the state budget without a tax increase.

John Hood is president of the John William Pope Foundation, a Raleigh-based grantmaker that supports public policy organizations, educational institutions, arts and cultural programs, and humanitarian relief in North Carolina and beyond. Hood is also chairman of the board at… ...

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