Imagine If The Dems Got Their Way on the Budget Last Year!

So April tax revenue is in and it does not paint a particularly pretty picture. Senator Sarlo is predicting that Christie’s estimates are off by nearly $1 billion dollars for next year, based on the current numbers. Thankfully no one ever really listens when Senator Sarlo speaks about things he does not understand, which happens to be most things. To even begin to speculate on an entire years returns based on these admittedly poor monthly numbers is nothing short of premature. That being said, the estimates should still get a second look.

The Treasurer and his staff should pour over the books in the coming weeks and establish new benchmarks and the FY2013 budget should be adjusted accordingly. The State Treasurer is slated to testify before the budget committees at the end of this month. Expect the entire testimony to revolve around this problem and know that it will be as partisan and ugly as you currently expect.

But putting the reality of the moment aside for now. Could you imagine if the Democrats got their way during last years budget debate?

Senator Sarlo is blathering on about how the Governor’s estimates could have been off while he and his party placed an additional billion in the budget last year that Governor Christie had to line item veto right out.

An additional billion dollars would have meant that based on their numbers and logic, we would be $2 billion in the hole! We should all be glad that there are grown ups in the Governor’s administration who are not afraid to say “no” to the Democrat caucuses and their asinine plans.

Before the Democrats jump all over Christie for a problem that we still have time to fix, maybe they should thank him for saving the budget from what very well could have been a fiscal disaster.

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3 Comments

  1. Can the budget gurus at SaveJersey help me and their readers understand something?

    The FY 2012 budget posted by the NJ Department of the Treasury indicates that $29.723B was appropriated for the current budget year. Reference Page B-2:

    http://www.state.nj.us/treasury/omb/publications/

    The governor's current budget proposal calls for $32.146B in spending, higher than Corzine's final budget. But here's the interesting part. The Budget-in-Brief indicates that FY 2012 spending was $30.989B. Reference Page 64.

    http://www.state.nj.us/treasury/omb/publications/

    Hmm??? $29.723B? $30.989B? Hmmm… OK, let's accept these numbers and do the math.

    $30.989B-$29.723=$1.266B

    Where did this moola come from? Why wasn't it in the original budget? Was the $1.266B put back in the budget over the governor's veto or with his approval?

    If the New Jersey state budget is supposed to be balanced (appropriations not exceeding revenues) how would the Democrats have spent more than Christie considering the governor's budget spent every available dime?

    Consider this a public service on your part. Try not to attack the messenger with vacuous accusations of #sourgrapes. Try to stick to the facts.

    Also, one philosophical question for my "conservative" friends at SaveJersey – one that should also no doubt prove illuminating for your readers.

    Is it the opinion of the SJ bloggers that a conservative approach to budgeting under a scenario where revenues increase and the state is in fiscal trouble to a) spend all of the additional revenues or b) maintain current spending levels (or cut spending further) and send the additional revenues realized back to taxpayers?

    I anxiously await your response.

  2. If tax revenues are low in April, the month when tax collections are going to be highest, you can just imagine how the rest of the year will turn out.

    And of course, Christie's budget is still higher than Corzine's was, and he still has not cut the state employee workforce. If Governor Christie wants to take on the public sector unions, how about cutting some of their jobs? That would sure do a lot to get the budget lowered.

    And to the extent that there are superfluous state employees that the Governor "can't fire," as he claimed with the Corzine deal with the unions before he took office, how about sending all of those useless employees to a rubber room with full pay, and conducting a press conference for You Tube every week outside that room to point out how the Democrats insist that taxpayers pay these useless idiots to do nothing?

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