Earlier this week, House and
Senate leaders unveiled their plan to fund transportation with a combination of
new tax revenue and increased fees. The plan would shore up MBTA finances and
move MassDOT employees from the capital budget to the operating budget--freeing
up resources for capital spending. The Joint House and Senate plan is
significantly smaller than the Governor's earlier transportation package and it
does not include the investments in education that the Governor had
proposed.
MassBudget's new brief, "The Joint Ways & Means Transportation
Proposal," describes the basic structure of the new proposal and compares it
to the Governor's.
Read our brief on THE JOINT WAYS & MEANS TRANSPORTATION
PROPOSAL
For a fuller discussion of the
Governor's proposal, see OUR BUDGET MONITOR
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Friday, April 5, 2013
MBPC: Less Revenue. Fewer Investments.
MBPC offered the briefing below --
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