Posts Tagged ‘Budget’

By Emily Geiger If you are an incompetent, not-so-bright, big spending Democratic governor, the last person you should pick a fight with is the highly competent, so-much-smarter-than-you, fiscally conservative Republican state auditor. Every time Auditor Dave Vaudt brings up the little fact that Chet Culver has royally blown the state budget to bits, Culver starts crying and goes ... Full story

Jamison talks about his record and how he’ll protect Iowa taxpayers Ames, IA—Today, Jamison for State Treasurer launched a 30-second radio ad highlighting his family values and position to protect Iowa taxpayers. The ad will run statewide and is the first in a series of ads. In the ad titled “Families,” Jamison relates state budgeting to how ... Full story

Iowa decision makers spent most of the 2010 general session focusing on patchwork solutions to balance the state budget, such as spending one-time funds on on-going programs and shifting state funding obligations to local governments. These temporary solutions will result in tax increases for property owners and do nothing to fix a broken budgeting process that ... Full story

WASHINGTON—In an effort to reduce wasteful spending and eliminate non-vital federal services, the U.S. government announced plans this week to cut its long-standing senator program, a move it says will help save more than $300 billion each year. According to officials, the decision to cut the national legislative body was reached during a budget review meeting on Tuesday. After ... Full story

Serious legislative work on Iowa’s next budget will now commence in earnest as lawmakers received budget targets this week. With the session now near the halfway point, the remaining weeks will become vitally important to pocketbooks of every taxpayer in this Iowa. Before the final budget is voted on by both the Iowa Senate and Iowa ... Full story

This week the Legislature advanced Senate File 2088, the state government reorganization bill. As the state faces a budget gap of more than one billion dollars, lawmakers are looking at ways to trim the massive budget through the restructuring of some state government operations. Unfortunately, the state government reorganization bill Senate File 2088, only goes ... Full story

A new TIR/Concordia Group poll shows the political environment in Iowa has improved for Republicans in the last six months. The poll was commissioned by TheIowaRepublican.com in conjunction with Concordia Group LLC, an Iowa based public affairs company. Voter Consumer Research, a highly respected polling firm based in Washington D.C., conducted the poll ... Full story

Every year, the legislature and the Governor must approve a balanced budget by the end of the legislative session. This process is always a tedious and difficult one, and this year, they only have 80 days to do it. Some years the process is easier than others. In fiscal year 2008, ... Full story

Republican gubernatorial candidate Rod Roberts filed a bill yesterday in the Iowa House of Representatives that calls for amending the Iowa Constitution to limit state government spending. The constitutional amendment would limit state spending to 99% of projected revenue. Over the past several months of his gubernatorial campaign, Roberts has pledged to work toward amending the ... Full story

Culver Administration: Just like every other year, the Governor’s budget recommendation is balanced. True, but last year’s budget was supposedly balanced, too. Governor Culver was forced to make two rounds of cuts to actually balance the budget. One of the cuts was a reckless 10% across-the-board cut that will force local government ... Full story