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When Lee Dreyfus ran for Governor of Wisconsin in 1978, he pledged that if elected he would return the state's growing budget surplus to the taxpayers. The maverick Republican won handily, and promptly signed into law a $976 million tax relief program. "When you recover stolen property," boasted Dreyfus, "it ought to be handed back." Today the surplus is gone. To keep Wisconsin from going into the red in the next fiscal year, the tax-cutting Governor says he must raise the state's gasoline tax by 53% and scrap programs ranging from new highway construction...
...laying off 500 state workers, raising the state sales tax. She was no easier on herself, refusing a $7,000 salary increase, selling the state airplane and limousines and turning any fees for speaking engagements over to the state. Two years into her term, Connecticut showed a $34 million surplus...
...savings in the economy. The Government must borrow to cover the deficit, thus decreasing savings, and in a briskly expanding economy this would reduce the money available for private investment. ''The quickest and surest way to increase savings is to reduce the deficit or run a budget surplus," says Heller. But he fears that the Reagan program will do the exact opposite, at least in the short...
...hardly believe their eyes when they opened their utility bills from the board of public affairs. All were stamped MERRY CHRISTMAS! PAID. Explained Board Chairman Dick Fairbanks, thinking perhaps of three other government officials who bore gifts to Bethlehem during the same season long ago: "We were running a surplus, and this just seemed like a good idea...
...excessive chatter. And certain subjects pull the stopper on even temperate people. Food, for example, instigates a preposterous quantity of repetitious chat. Sex? It has already provoked such an excess of discussion-functional and gynecological-that it is fair to rule all future comment on the subject may be surplus...