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  • From: "Common Sense Foundation" <david@common-sense.org>
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  • Subject: Consider This: Budget Math
  • Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 15:24:28 -0400

Consider This...


BUDGET MATH


Proposed cuts that may appear in the House budget:

$17.5 million cut from community mental health budget
$38 million cut from the CAP system for developmental disabilities

That adds up to $55.5 million about to be cut from services for the
mentally ill (despite the fact that thousands of North Carolinians are
already on waiting lists for these services).


Proposed giveaways or tax cuts that may appear in the House budget:

$32.9 million corporate income tax cut
$20 million given to One North Carolina Fund for corporate welfare

That adds up to $52.9 million being given to corporations with no
guarantee that the giveaways will produce any decent jobs at all (the
corporate tax cut produces less than $2,000 per company, hardly enough
to create even one job).


55.5 minus 52.9 leaves 2.6. Funny, $2.6 million is exactly the amount
that has been proposed for an increase to the Legislative Tuition Grant,
which subsidizes the private college tuitions of state residents
regardless of financial need.

So, if corporate welfare takes a holiday, and no more money is added to
the millions already being spent on private tuition subsidies, then the
state could continue to fund mental health services at the current
(albeit inadequate) level.


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  • Consider This: Budget Math, Common Sense Foundation, 05/27/2004

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