Word: budget
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BOSTON--A state budget nearly $600 million trimmer than the governor's plan would need no new taxes but would force economies in state government as proposed yesterday by House Ways and Means Chair Richard Voke...
Warning of "runaway growth" in state spending, the influential House Democrat offered a pared-down budget with a bottom line of $12.3 billion in direct appropriations, compared to the $12.87 billion proposed last month by Gov. Michael S. Dukakis...
Voke thus positioned the House leadership on the side of what many House members believe is the prevailing popular sentiment against any tax increase. The House budget plan presents members with a clear alternative to the higher spending and $604 million tax increase advocated by Dukakis...
After expediting his budget plan through Ways and Means with little opposition and without debate, Voke told a crowded news conference that his goal is the downsizing of government, arguing that continuing present trends would require annual tax increases...
...Roaring Twenties satin and fringe are a dazzling but understated use of the $30,000 costume budget. The best duds of the night came in Act II, when the speakeasy clientele and the cops don camoflauge outfits and wellplaced grenades. In the night's fashion coup extraordinaire, Agent Tess Tosterone sports black leather bodice, camo cape and the most lethal weapon of all--metal breastcups with fold-out knives--better known as "Ginsu chest...