Budgets Quotations | Page 5

We're really hoping that she would vote against any budget that includes cuts in human services programs,

We could be continuing until March 2003 under this year's budget.

We are trying to make things as pleasant as we can. We got a roof on so it doesn't leak anymore. We are ripping up and replacing damaged floor in the utility room. We will do a little kitchen work putting in a new kitchen counter and sink. We will put a new vanity in the bath, and I think that will run our budget out. We will come back and do the outside work during the week.

Securing farmers' and ranchers' viability is always a top priority for the USDA. We'd need to find budget offsets.

Our tax cut has to fit in within a responsible budget,

Our focus regarding Idaho's property tax system has been to help legislators and others get a good understanding of the current Idaho property tax laws and how the 3 percent, plus growth budget limitation law works, ... Obviously local property tax budgets are growing more than 3 percent per year. We are helping show how that happens.

There are school budgets that are being voted down around New Jersey even though they're efficient budgets, they're good budgets, because people can't see straight regarding property taxes. It has become such a burden that the way education funding has played its way out in the state as a result of the various Abbott decisions that we've got a real crisis on our hands.

It would have a very significant impact on our budget. It's about 10 percent of our total operating budget. It would delay the mid-Jordan line by seven years and delay the line to the airport beyond my lifetime.

I understand when you have to look at cutting budgets. But when you look at one program and you take one thing out of it, you eliminate participation. It counters what has been a statewide move to provide more opportunities.

Obviously, in an ideal world, we would give as much money as we could to as many students as we could. But this is just not possible to do with the budget we are given.