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Rep. Mike Turner offers an alternative to Governor Bredesen’s solution to the budget shortfall:

State Rep. Mike Turner (D-Old Hickory) is pushing a $100 million budget amendment to prevent layoffs of state employees for one year.

Governor Bredesen,

You have been a good and strong advocate for Tennessee's Natural Heritage but the current budget situation is leading to a mistake in the manner that may be chosen to balance the state's finances.

Using the real estate transfer fees paid on every real estate transaction being used to balance the general budget is a huge mistake. This is dedicated money paid to the State for a

Governor Bredesen may allow the Real Estate Trasfer Fees to be sucked into the general fund in order to balance the state budget.

He did this once before, caught hell for it, and made it up to future generations with a stupendous effort to preserve and protect some really important lands, The Sundquist Forest and Frozenhead among them. The problem this time is that Bredesen has only a couple of

Politicians are quite the disgusting lot.  Bredesen and his media friends want you to believe he’s a great businessman willing to make sacrifices.  But if you’re a taxpayer who stays informed, you know the truth. Governor Bredesen has been on the march, with the help of his Revenue Commissioner Reagan Farr, to get more of your money.

Former Tennessean “conservative” columnist does not think that Governor Bredesen deserves the respect of people who call themselves Democrats:

Stacey Campfield doesn’t understand why the state employees Governor Bredesen is attempting to coax into retirement in order to cut the budget were there in the first place:

It looks like the tax increases planned by Governor Bredesen and Revenue Commissioner Reagan Farr may be in trouble. The bill has stalled.  And it appears it will remain in that state–a legislative coma, if you will.

From Tom Humphrey at the KNS:

Governor Bredesen's proposal to eliminate 2,011 state workers would cut 42% of the positions that have been added since he took office.

The House Majority Leader has announced that he will be opposing a provision of the Bredesen Administration “technical corrections” bill, calling it a tax increase. Ben Cunningham opines:

Bill Hobbs tells another story of Governor Bredesen and taxes, and how he is trying to stick it to Tennessee businesses.