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January 25, 2016

PENDER: Mississippi has cut taxes, but until last week, it hasn’t cut spending correspondingly

Geoff Pender: Mississippi has cut taxes, but not spending Part of the revenue crunch is from $350 million in tax credits and breaks passed over the last four years. For the coming year, the phased reduction of the business inventory tax is reducing revenue by $126 million. Mississippi has cut taxes, but until last week,…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
January 25, 2016

Funding MAEP, schools based on A and B districts instead of C would cut costs

Changes could cut costs of MAEP JACKSON – The Mississippi Adequate Education Program, the subject of a litany of legislative fights over the last 12 years, will be much easier to fully fund if changes proposed by Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves come to fruition. It would take $80 million less to fully fund the Adequate…