Perdue: Revenue better than thought


Gov. Beverly Perdue said the early news on the April 15 tax returns is that the state revenue picture is better than expected.

After being briefed this morning by budget director Charles Perusse, Perdue said she was told that sales tax revenues for the last quarter are "fairly good" or "not as bad as it could have been," Rob Christensen reports.

But the governor said the tax returns have not yet been fully calculated so it is difficult to get the full picture.

"I believe by Friday I will have a handle on the numbers and by Tuesday or Wednesday we can give you the numbers," Perdue told reporters after speaking to a luncheon of the state chapter of the National Federation of Independent Businesses at the Raleigh Marriott City Center.

The state is facing a $2 billion budget shortfall for the fiscal year ending June 30th and a $3 billion to $4 billion shortfall for the year beginning July 1.

The governor said she was confident the state could pay its bills and meet its payroll.

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Re: Perdue: Revenue better than thought

Typical Republican. How many times did you vote for George Bush?? Hello... From surplus to financial disaster. How did Republican leadership turnout- for this country? You arm chair Republicans always have a complaint and nothing to offer. Maybe you'd like to change North Carolina's financial status with Republican led states such as South Carolina? I'll take my chances with the sound leadership which has made North Carolina one of the strongest state profiles in the face of tough economic times.

Re: Perdue: Revenue better than thought

Typical Republican. How many times did you vote for George Bush?? Hello... From surplus to financial disaster. How did Republican leadership turnout- for this country? You arm chair Republicans always have a complaint and nothing to offer. Maybe you'd like to change North Carolina's financial status with Republican led states such as South Carolina? I'll take my chances with the sound leadership which has made North Carolina one of the strongest state profiles in the face of touch economic times.

Re: Perdue: Revenue better than thought

I am disappointed in the lack of understanding by Bev. Perdue. We all said she had no clue and it is showing up in her latest budget proposal. What has she cut? Maybe $100 million and robbed other state trust funds for $40 million? The state is getting $1.5 billion in Spendulous money that she is going to spend on continuing projects. What about next year or the year after?

And the Basnight/Rand team has put in $500 million inspending with NO revenue source. Can you say TAX INCREASES in a HORRIBLE economy.

Seriously, WAKE UP North Carolina and vote in ANYBODY besides Democrats.

Re: Perdue: Revenue better than thought

"Revenue better than thought" Typical Democrat position! Don't think about it , get their money and then spend it on whatever stupidity that you can think of. Remember that Bill Clinton did his thing bombing Arab nations and running commando attacks against several Arab/Muslim countries. When they finally responded to the Bush was in Office and he responded to their 9/11 attacks appropriately the lefty press took him to task - you guys believedall the bad stuff that was said. The Democarts who attempted to start this thing during their tenure to ensure the war news hid their attempts to convert this country more toward a socialist left wing economy (FDR did it, Truman did it , Kennedy and Johnson did it, all thru war efforts to have the war news on the first page and the social/financial news shifted out of immediate public view. Jimmy Carter at least tried to be more honest about it and you can see what happend to him: inflation at 21% and one term in office! Clinton tried a modification of it to keep down the US military deaths, but essentially had the financial news relegated to the back pages because of his foreign entanglements! Ah Jest cain't wait! The Muslims are gonna stop overt attacks and Chairman Obie is gonna give them everything they want under the table!! As soon as we come to our senses and vote in a conserv. govt. the arabs are gonna attck knowing the US press will head off ny attepmt at redress!

Re: Perdue: Revenue better than thought

If that were true why do we keep getting internal memos and having meetings telling us they may RIF positions and have employees with 30 years retire because they are not sure they can meet payroll?

Re: Perdue: Revenue better than thought

Pheww! That was close, we were almost forced into removing some of the fat in the state gov't and actually streamlining some depts. Thank goodness we do not have to do that - now we can keep both our government daycare programs running full strength - better yet we can even get Mrs. Sleazy a higher paid job!!!