MO lawmakers want to use stimulus funds for tax rebates

[proud2BlibKansan]

JEFFERSON CITY | Federal stimulus money now pouring into state government coffers may trickle into the pockets of Missourians under a plan announced Thursday.

House leaders are now working to direct $1 billion of the state’s stimulus share toward an 8-percent state income-tax cut for the next two years.

The state is set to receive more than $4 billion in the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Of that, state lawmakers have substantial authority to spend about $2.17 billion to bridge budget gaps and reinvigorate the economy.

The plan outlined Thursday is an abrupt shift from current budget bills, which allocate more than a billion dollars in federal money for construction and infrastructure, social programs and various other state-level pork projects.

Those bills were devised over the last couple weeks by Republican budget leaders, but ran into strong opposition this week from fiscally conservative rank-and-filers within the party.

more . . . http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/18183

[wolfgangmo]

1. Please let them spend it any way they want.

And after the economy of the repubidiot state collapses, then cut them off.

[ejpoeta]

3. no, because then they'll say.... see, the stimulus didn't work!!

even though they didn't use it as it was intended, people tend not to look to far into the truth of things. and they have short memories.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. And the good people in MO??

They just get to suffer, eh?

[Thrill]

2. Email this story to Recovery.gov. Stop this nonsense. You're suppose to create jobs with the money

[DefenseLawyer]

5. Why would a legitimate news story use the pejorative term "pork projects"

to describe "federal money for construction, infrastructure and social programs"? Hmmmm.....

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Because it's from a blog

A blog that leans right wing.