After months of waiting and failed compromises, the commonwealth has not one but two new opportunities to end the state budget stalemate. With a Senate budget bill ready for consideration as early as Wednesday, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives is whipping up a solution of its own. Debate and a vote were set for Tuesday, according to a Daily Local News report.
The House proposal calls for a $30.3 billion budget, half a billion dollars less than the budget approved by the Senate on Monday.
While the Senate version calls for cigarette tax hikes and a banking tax change, “House Republicans say they’d impose tobacco taxes, tax lottery winnings and get other revenue from gambling to make their plan add up,” the article stated.
Read more about the latest budget impasse development in the Daily Local News here, and check out previous VISTA Today coverage of the ongoing crisis here.
