The Be Added Too(s)
Blessed are the analysts, for they shall receive information.
As the Governor puts together the list of items for the May 24th Special Session, there is no shortage of legislators requesting that their items be added too.
The mounting calculation errors of the Tax Commission strongly suggest that an item will be included on the call to allow the Tax Commission to better share information on projected revenues with legislative counsel and the legislative fiscal analyst. This is an overdue change that will help government function better by allowing more parties to analyze the data.
Technical corrections will be made to the transportation funding bill that was vetoed.
Beyond that, approximately 20 additional items are being pitched to the Governor by various players. Stay tuned for details.
As the Governor puts together the list of items for the May 24th Special Session, there is no shortage of legislators requesting that their items be added too.
The mounting calculation errors of the Tax Commission strongly suggest that an item will be included on the call to allow the Tax Commission to better share information on projected revenues with legislative counsel and the legislative fiscal analyst. This is an overdue change that will help government function better by allowing more parties to analyze the data.
Technical corrections will be made to the transportation funding bill that was vetoed.
Beyond that, approximately 20 additional items are being pitched to the Governor by various players. Stay tuned for details.
posted by steve u. at 5/16/2006
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5 Comments:
What's up with the Tax Commission? Where do they get their mathemeticians? I thought only the federal government and Enron were capable of making mistakes that big.
I'll be glad when the legislative analyst has access to the data. It helps to have more eyes and minds working on the forecasts.
In this case, Rep. Dave Clark and I had many stories about retired constituents calculating their taxes under H3 to be much higher. If the Legislative Fiscal Analyst would have had access to the data, we could have forced the issue and the problem would have been discovered earlier (if it had arisen at all).
I'm just grateful the error was caught.
Amen.
The amazing thing is that some camps are still ticked that the House didn't pass this thing that was pushed our way at the 11th hour.
Yes, this was an error. But it is surprising that the Governor is apparently dead set against simply reducing taxes and insistant upon tax reform. This highlights why we might want to be cautious about "reforming" a system that already is very simple. There isn't a great need to reform (while there is a great need to reduce the tax burden), but there are great risks in tampering with something that has been in place and is working.
The Tax Commission is long over due for an audit. Can you see that it happens.
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