Issue Position: Budget

Issue Position

Alabama is required by law to have a balanced budget. We have a surplus in the education fund budget and a deficit in the general fund budget. Additionally, all of the growth tax revenues (sales and property taxes) are in the education budget. We need to do what any common-sense family budgeter would do: combine the two budgets. This would allow us to shift money so that we could balance both budgets. There are fewer than 5 states in America that still have separate budgets for education and the general fund.

We also need to end the practice of earmarking our budgets. Almost 90% of our state budget is earmarked, making it difficult (and often impossible) for the legislators to identify and eliminate overlap and waste.

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