Metronews - Starting another morning of negotiations with state legislators, Gov. Jim Justice advocated for looking at the big picture of the latest budget framework, rather than getting hung up on too many details. Read.
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State Journal, The Exponent Telegram - During a recent debate on the floor of the West Virginia Senate, Senate Majority Leader Ryan Ferns, R-Ohio, called a plan to move the state's tax structure to consumption taxes and eventually eliminate the personal income tax a "bold, aggressive approach" that would send the Mountain State "on a path to…
Exponent Telegram - The state of West Virginia has been in a budget crisis for more than three years now. Read.
U.S News & World Report - The small town of Madison, West Virginia, used to be a tale of the coal miner's dream. High schoolers could collect their diplomas and head straight to the mines to make $70,000 a year with no higher education, as their parents and grandparents had done for years. Read.
Charleston Gazette-Mail - President Donald Trump's proposed budget, officially unveiled Tuesday, is a cold-blooded plan to help the rich and the military, while slashing the safety net for average American families. Read.
Beckley Register-Herald, Bluefield Daily Telegraph - Several state officials on both sides of the political divide spoke out Tuesday against President Donald Trump's budget proposal, arguing the cuts in the proposal could devastate West Virginia. Read.
Ohio Valley Resource, WKNS Radio - The true costs of the deep cuts in President Donald Trump's proposed budget would fall disproportionately on many of the poor and working class people in the Ohio Valley region who helped to elect him, according to lawmakers and policy analysts. Read.
State Journal - Members of the state Senate's Select Committee on Tax Reform have decided to double down on their tax reform plan, completely rewriting a tax and revenue bill previously passed by the House of Delegates. Read.
Public News Service - The West Virginia Legislature is getting closer to securing the revenue the state needs. But Ted Boettner, executive director with the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, says lawmakers aren't there yet. Read.
As the legislative budget impasse moves into its third week, about the best that can be said is that the Senate/governor proposal to use income tax cuts as a way to make other tax increases more palatable to legislators appears to have been put out of its misery. Read.