Enacted Budget: Fast Facts - Razzle Dazzle

By House Appropriations Committee Staff , | 13 years ago

On June 27, 2011, House and Senate Republican Leaders unveiled their final $27.15 billion General Fund spending plan for 2011/12. Republicans tout the plan as restoring some of the draconian cuts proposed by Governor Corbett while keeping an expenditure level lower than previous years. Do not be deceived. The Republican budget concocts this “spend number” by moving expenditures off-line to other funds (and even other fiscal years) – the same “smoke and mirrors” criticized during previous budgets. More troubling is the fact that the Republican budget plan is balanced at the expense of the health and safety of Pennsylvania citizens, through irresponsible cuts in the Department of Public Welfare.

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