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What good is half a budget?

July 20, 2017

Editorial, includes “Pennsylvania lawmakers may think they passed a budget on time this year. But they didn't, really. What they sent to Gov. Wolf on June 30 was at best only half a budget, the easy half — what they plan to spend and on what.  … The difficult part of any budget is coming up with the money to pay for it. On that score, members of the House and Senate just don't seem to know what to do. … Lawmakers who have been quoted in various news reports all talk about the need to solve the problem, about their responsibility to Pennsylvania residents, blah, blah, blah. But we just don't see any urgency …”

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