|
Inside Dope
Thursday, Feb 17, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller An anonymous person in the Quad Cities saw my repeated requests that somebody start a microblog for that region. The Inside Dope is the result. So far, so good.
|
|
Nice one
Thursday, Feb 17, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller OneMan makes a good point today about the governor’s plan to increase cigarette taxes by 75 cents a pack. The governor said yesterday about smoking: “There’s no single voluntary act that causes more damage, more destruction, and more health care costs than smoking. If we raise the cigarette tax by 75 cents and raise the tax on cigars, we can generate over $150 million each year in revenue.” OneMan responds: So let me get this right, since smoking causes all sorts of costs to society as a whole we are going to raise taxes on smoking (ok, so far somewhat logical) But not to cover the costs to society of smoking but to build roads (so much for logic).
|
|
Good catch
Thursday, Feb 17, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller From an editorial today in the Bloomington Pantagraph: [Governor Blagojevich] also lamented 10 percent annual increases lately in Medicaid costs, but then said he wanted to make 74,000 more people qualify for the state’s “Family Care” program, which is funded through Medicaid. He also added people last year. If he wants to “hold the line” on costs, he has to hold the line on qualifiers. That’s a good catch by the Pantagraph folks, and I had already planned on writing about this tomorrow. Stay tuned.
Comments Off |
|
Pay as you go
Thursday, Feb 17, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller From the governor’s budget address: And one way to control spending is to adopt a system of pay as you go. Bills, except bills for appropriations and for the codification, revision or rearrangement of laws, shall be confined to one subject. Appropriation bills shall be limited to the subject of appropriations.
|
|
“Because it never was one.”
Thursday, Feb 17, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller Yesterday, the governor said this: Blagojevich proposed a $140 million increase for schools next year, to be funded through a potentially risky plan of dipping into some of the more than 400 special funds set up throughout state government that collect cash from licensing fees and fines. Not quite. As I pointed out in today’s Capitol Fax, this is what candidate Rod Blagojevich said in 2002: “One way that I plan to increase funding for our schools is by not only continuing Governor Ryan’s commitment to direct 51 percent of new revenues to education funding, but to codify that promise into law.”
|
|
“Rotarians want DHS to stay put”
Thursday, Feb 17, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller I don’t really care about the story, but I thought the headline was too good to pass up.
I’m not sure why I find that hed so amusing, but I do.
Comments Off |
| « NEWER POSTS | PREVIOUS POSTS » |
