Montana may be reaping rewards from North Dakota’s good fortunes
By PHIL DRAKE
Montana Watchdog
HELENA – The fruits of North Dakota’s good economic fortunes could also be benefitting Montana. And North Dakota residents who find work in Montana could be helping their state coffers as well.
One of the many variables that may have added some oomph to Montana’s budget projections is an agreement on individual income taxes [...]
State of the states? Broke and going broker
By Frank Keegan, Editor of Watchdog.org
Taxpayers, prepare to be extorted and robbed.
If the first two state-of-the-state speeches Wednesday are any indication, we are in for it.
Fiscal mismanagement leaders California and New York opened the hunting season on taxpayers.
Forty three other state legislatures convene soon to deal with the fiscal carnage they wrought through political profligacy [...]
State study dubs fiscal status ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’
A grim report that shows 36 states already in deficit as of November does not even include billions of dollars state governments owe their employees for retirement benefits.
The National Conference of State Legislatures State Budget Update says, “The state revenue nightmare continues. … Not only have revenues continued to fall below expectations, they are projected [...]
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