Our Views: ; a Spending Party in an Election Year?; Adding $100 Million in Spending Is a Danger to All Taxpayers

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WITH two weeks left in the legislative session, lawmakers have taken Gov. Joe Manchin's $138 million in spending requests and added another $100 million in tax changes, pay raise proposals and other new spending.

For example, legislative leaders upped Manchin's 3 percent raise for teachers to increases that will average 4.6 percent.

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Our Views: ; a Spending Party in an Election Year?; Adding $100 Million in Spending Is a Danger to All Taxpayers

That extra $17.4 million in spending is not a one-time thing bu...

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