Weekly GOP radio address: Writing the state budget

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 budg...