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April 4, 2017

CRAWFORD: Efforts to plant new money trees have been blocked in #msleg

BILL CRAWFORD — Republican leaders turn legislative session into fiasco Meanwhile, efforts to plant new money trees have been blocked.   Gov. Phil Bryant encouraged legislators to consider a state lottery that could generate $100 million in new money.    House Speaker Philip Gunn blocked that money tree.   The Speaker pushed to collect taxes…
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April 4, 2017

With unemployment at lowest level in 15 years, sales and income tax revenues remain down

Where’s the money? At the state level, unemployment is at its lowest level in 15 years. And yet, sales tax revenues and income tax receipts are millions below projected levels, forcing the state to cut the budget. So…where’s the money? “That conundrum is very unusual,” Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, a Republican, told WTVA recently… …Holland,…