Dismal Revenue Forecast Shorts Highways, Challenges Dem Priorities

New, quarterly figures from the office of Legislative Council show that the flagging economy will cost the state government a bundle in tax revenue. The five-year forecast for revenue to the state's operating budget is $487 million lower than the projection.

issued by the office last December. That translates to a drop, since the last forecast of $441 million in the funding allocated to highways under the current budgetary formula.

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We Keep Raising Taxes And Fees For These Things But The Money Always Seem To Go Somewhere Else. But If We raise The Severance Tax On Energy Then It will Go To Needed Improvements. They Mean It This Time. Right?