Each Indiana taxpayer’s financial burden equals $2,300. Read report here: 2009 Indiana Financial State of the State Share and Enjoy:
(Business Week) The state budget agency says Indiana schools won’t get any extra cash to supplement their budgets this year because tax revenues fell $957 million short of previous expectations. The two-year state budget passed in 2009 contained a so-called education funding trigger that allowed schools to get extra money if the state collected more [...]
(Indystar.com) Accusing the state government of fostering a “culture of secrecy,” Senate Minority Leader Vi Simpson on Tuesday called on the Daniels administration to make public what state programs are being cut to make ends meet. Simpson, D-Ellettsville, said she first sought the information earlier this year but was told by State Budget Director Chris [...]
Indiana Auditor of State’s website: http://www.in.gov/tos/ Indiana’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports can be found at: http://www.in.gov/auditor/2344.htm Indiana is required to pass a balanced budget in that according to statue “no law shall authorize any debt to be contracted”, except for “casual deficits” which must be covered by loans “as may be necessary to meet the [...]
