Fallin's budget shows NO FY2019 budget shortfall

An interesting note from page 15 of Governor Fallin's FY2019 Executive Budget proposal:

As the overall economy has improved, the "sky is falling!" projections of a massive, multi-hundred million dollar budget shortfall have lessened and lessened, with Governor Fallin's own budget proposal now showing that the state will have just under $60M more to appropriate than in the FY2018 budget.

Her budget builds on that sum by adding just over $696M in new taxes, and adding $723M in new spending, cutting that $60M surplus over the FY2018 budget in half.


BONUS - here as some recent articles on the Fallin/Step Up tax hikes from Bloggers Organized for Oklahoma Taxpayers:

• Keating: Nothing Should Be Off The Table As Oklahoma Moves Forward [TheOkie]
• OCPA Fallin State of the State; Bloggers Organized for Oklahoma Taxpayers [BatesLine]
• I May Have to Start Voting Democrat [OK Politechs]
• Dan Fisher: Only GOP Candidate Not Receiving Contributions From Step Up [Tapp Into Common Sense]
• ‘We can do better’: Americans for Prosperity pans Oklahoma tax plan [NonDoc]
• The Raw Nerve of it All — Arrogance and Corporate Greed of ‘StepUp’ Plan [SCrosnoe]
• The Band Is Back Together [Tapp Into Common Sense]
• Is It a "Step Up" ... or a Step Down? [Jordan Green Says]