"What Just Happened?": a view from the State House (and other musings)

Politics vs. policy

March 28, 2010

Tags: politics, soda tax, dietary supplements

Every Tuesday afternoon, the three parties hold their caucuses, to go over the bills to be introduced that week. This last Tuesday, we Dems got an advance look at the budget and what's called the Miscellaneous Tax Bill. Now both Appropriations and Ways and Means committees consist of smart, incredibly hardworking people who this year managed to come up with a balanced budget and some creative solutions that kept the state's human services programs from being eviscerated, as Governor Douglas had proposed. But. (more…)