Budget Picture Looking Bleaker: ; State Must Cut Nearly $200 Million; Manchin Continues to Rule Out Tax Hikes

Charleston Daily Mail › March 20, 2009

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West Virginia's proposed state budget has grown even gloomier with the announcement that Gov. Joe Manchin has upped his estimated cuts to nearly $200 million.

The governor had warned lawmakers earlier this session that they would have to shave about 2 percent from the budget he proposed last month.

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Budget Picture Looking Bleaker: ; State Must Cut Nearly $200 Million; Manchin Continues to Rule Out Tax Hikes

The reduced revenue estimate he sent the Legislature's top leaders Thursday show that they must pare down general revenue and lottery-supported spending by about 4.6 percen...

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