Open, the cutting part is relatively easy. Now, Republicans control in the United States most of the State Capitol, facing a larger philosophical dilemmas - all the money to do the improving economy, and suddenly generate income surplus.
Save it? Refund tax cuts? Or spend it?
Although they won the majority of the principles of the platform, the government smaller than half of the Statehouse, some Republicans felt a lot of pressure on the newly discovered money spent has been overlooked or recent economic recession caused by the recession cut during the roads, buildings and schools.
"Everyone wants the money, said:" North Dakota Senate Majority Leader Rich Wardner, oil industry boom has played one of the fuel to the flames, in the country's largest per capita budget surplus.
Only a small number of countries continue to face budgetary difficulties forced massive cuts in public education and social services, a few years after the Great Depression, according to a new report of the NCSL. On the contrary, more and more expected, they will complete the 2013 fiscal year with a surplus, some totaling millions of dollars.
This has created new tensions, such as Michigan, Missouri and Texas, the moral of the Republican majority to spend money wrestling.
"I want to save money, I want to keep it in the bank, I want to give it back to the taxpayers, said:" The Missouri House of Representatives Budget Committee Chairman Rick stream, from the suburbs of St. Louis, a self-proclaimed fiscal conservatives. "But sometimes, you have to spend money on large capital improvement on the move forward."
Running more than 11% higher than last year's tax revenue to the Missouri Republican majority since the civil war, they estimated more than $ 400 million budget surplus. In the recent few weeks ago, the flow to spend too much money, and resolute opposition. But he has now agreed to use about $ 1.2 million for the construction of office buildings in Jefferson City, the Houses of Parliament and national parks maintenance, and draw the design of a new mental hospital. By such expenditures, he said, the state will save a lot of money on the road. "
How to deal with their surplus income will provide a good first test, whether it is Republican cuts so that they can make better time, in difficult times stick or whether the Government will be restored to pre-recession levels. These decisions may vary depending on whether the legislators View influx of financial persistent.
The recent government report warned the Rockefeller Institute surge in profits in 2012 by wealthy taxpayers in order to avoid federal tax increase in 2013 by the hit caused by short-lived.
Save the scriptures to spend conflict in some states.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder - Republican who is a former accountant - push to sock away more money, a savings account in a country, it is already healthy level in about ten years. The non-partisan Michigan Senate Finance Bureau reported that the state may take more revenue than expected four months ago to $ 542 million.
But there are some other in the Republican-led Senate Republican-friendly use of the money.
Snyder recently squashed emergency dredging plan of the Great Lakes ports, other Republican lawmakers want more tax incentives, increase or avoid hunting and fishing fees for the film industry.
Stirring surge in revenue is also a Texas Republican, who are particularly enthusiastic about small government unrest. Prior to cut $ 15 billion from the state budget, held in 2013, members of Congress know that they have more income than expected $ 8.8 billion.
With the country in its constitutional spending limit, the Texas Senate to ask voters to approve the use of $ 200 million, to develop more water, 2.9 billion yuan for roads and bridges in U.S. dollars and eight million U.S. dollars for public schools. But with Gov. Rick Perry, Tea Party conservatives, called for tax cuts. Perry said that the country has to spend a lot of education, even in the reduction of $ 540 million U.S. dollars from the 2011 school budget.
"We have challenges, we do not have the money in the legislative bodies, and said:" When we do this, we have greater challenges, Texas Rep. Brandon - Clayton, Republican from Conroe.
Mississippi and Tennessee Republican members of the legislature earlier this year, has invested millions of dollars in their savings.
But in North Dakota, oil development bonanza into so much tax revenue into the government coffers, about 70 million inhabitants in the state now has a surplus of nearly $ 200 million - double the size budget in the past decade .
New found wealth on an unprecedented requirements legislators spending on roads, schools, law enforcement and emergency medical services. Parliament recently agreed to provide more than 1.1 billion U.S. dollars to help the oil boom in the western North Dakota community. But some lawmakers say the record is still not enough funding to meet the requirements of swelling, while others complained that the state benefit expenditure and its components.
Legislation Wardner from Dickinson, the Republican Party has been used for 22 years, said the influx of money to create more tension within the room, "and make it harder to craft budget.
"In the past, we just say 'no', because we do not have the money, we've done," Wardner said. "Now, if we say 'no', they say 'our money."
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