What the Future Holds for Our State’s Budget & Taxation: It’s Not A Pleasant Sight
Friday, January 15th, 2010Equity Center Radio | January 15, 2010 | An Interview With Dick Lavine, the Senior Fiscal Analyst for the Center for Policy Policy Priorities
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Today Equity Center Radio hears from Dick Lavine, the Senior Fiscal Analyst with the Center for Public Policy Priorities (“CPPP”). Dick joined the center in 1994. He focuses on state tax and revenue issues. Before coming to the center, he was a Senior Researcher at the House Research Organization of the Texas House of Representatives, where he covered budget and tax issues. He is widely acknowledged as one of the leading experts in the fields of public finance, state budgets and state and local taxes.
Dick discusses the short fall in state revenues and how it could affect the need for greater taxes when the legislature meets next year. The state will probably have to deplete the “Rainy Day Fund;” and still not have enough money to fund all the state’s agencies and programs. A prediction of the dire consequences of a system of taxation that simply does not work.
We are sure you will enjoy this timely and lively interview.
We are certainly pleased to have Dick Lavine on our show.
What the Future Holds for the State of Texas: Lack of Adequate Funding for Programs and Higher Taxes
Dick Lavine
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