Hi, this is State Senator Howard Marklein. I am the co-chair of the legislature’s budget-writing Joint Committee on Finance.
Last month the Governor delivered his budget address. He proposed a budget that spends $119 billion over the next two years, a 20% increase over our current budget. It adds 1,302 employees to the state government’s payroll and raises taxes by $3.2 billion.
This proposed bud...
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