Word: budgeteers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Keverian's move to put pressure on House Democrats comes after sharp criticism of the speaker from both parties. Many lawmakers have attributed the legislature's inaction in response to a $720 million state budget deficit to a lack of leadership and direction from Keverian...
Dukakis has repeatedly asked the legislature to consider new taxes as a solution to the state's budget woes...
...some, that was not enough to justify a nearly 40% salary increase. "We come forward with ethics reform, and we instead sneak in a pay raise," said Democratic Congressman James Traficant of Ohio. "With the huge budget deficit we face, now is not the time." Nader spokesman Bob Dreyfuss pointed out that while Congress was looking after its own interests, it had delayed action on a federal child-care plan and failed to pass a budget -- leaving servicemen, Medicare recipients, farmers and other federal beneficiaries vulnerable to the automatic Gramm-Rudman-Hollings cutbacks. "If the issue were based on merit...
...People will vote for new taxes when they see that really sincere efforts have been made towards budget spending reform," said Jordan St. John, press secretary for Steven D. Pierce (R-Westfield), the House minority leader and another candidate for governor...
...less acute. After years of phenomenal double-digit growth, the Massachusetts economy had at last slowed down. In June, Dukakis was forced to raise temporarily state income taxes by 15% to meet $700 million in last year's unpaid bills. Last week, scarcely four months into the current budget, the deficit had already soared to $730 million, far more than anyone imagined possible. As revenues sagged with no matching reductions in the state's ambitious outlays, deficits rose and credit , ratings withered. The financial ranking of once proud Massachusetts dropped to 49th among the states, ahead only of economically crippled...