Definition of a state budget – actual cuts, or cuts in “proposed” spending?
By RACHEL LA CORTE
Business Week
Posted 11/11/2012
OLYMPIA, Wash.
Revenue, reform and, of course, cuts. Those are the options Washington state lawmakers will weigh this month as they try to balance a budget deficit projected to be about a billion dollars through the middle of 2013.
But what, exactly, is a budget cut? It depends on whom you ask.
For some, a cut is a removal of something that currently exists: A prison that is shuttered. A state employee who is laid off. A person who received subsidized health care from the state who now doesn’t. (more…)
