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...cuts in school spending. But 1991, the year of recession, falling revenues and rising red ink, has changed all that. Governors are realizing that they cannot saw away at basic services while leaving education untouched. Republican William Weld in Massachusetts, Democrat Mario Cuomo in New York and Independent Lowell Weicker Jr. in Connecticut, hardly ideological bedfellows, have all decided to cut school budgets. Like other embattled Governors, they are also trying to shift resources from rich school districts to poor ones and encourage creative and cost-effective proposals for education reform...
...Connecticut, where the idea of a state income tax has been practically banned from political discourse, incoming Governor Lowell Weicker Jr. has boldly called for one. Elected 15 months ago, Governor Douglas Wilder of Virginia has continued to defy assumptions about the social priorities of black Democrats by proposing that the state eliminate, among other things, the Department for Children, the Council on the Status of Women and the Council on Indians. In California, where health and highways are obsessions, Governor Pete Wilson, a Republican, is taxing granola bars and raising the cost of registering cars...
...mantle of moral courage. "Let us make history as well as headlines by reinventing the way state government functions in this cradle of democratic capitalism," said William F. Weld, the newly elected Republican Governor of Massachusetts, in his inaugural address. From the ornate chamber of Connecticut's General Assembly, Weicker, in office scarcely a month, told legislators: "Neither you nor I signed on to muck around for two to four years in the mistakes of the past...
...Weld is brazen, then Weicker and Tennessee's Ned McWherter, who is also trying to institute a state income tax, may be courting political folly. The only time a state income tax was enacted in Connecticut, in 1971, it provoked such an outcry that it was repealed within six weeks. Tennesseans dislike the tax so much that the state courts once declared it unconstitutional. Both Governors hope to soften the blow of the new levies by lowering sales taxes. McWherter, a Democrat re-elected last fall, has also made the plan more palatable by promising to channel the new revenue...
...this fiscal year, Connecticut is looking at a $500 million shortfall, which is expected to triple in the next. That would amount to 20% of the state's projected $7.9 billion budget for fiscal 1991, proportionately the highest deficit acknowledged so far by any state. Governor-elect Lowell Weicker, who has asked all state agencies to propose budget cuts of up to 20%, is thinking of the unthinkable: an income...