By Phil Kabler The Charleston Gazette-Mail, W.Va. Feb. 09--Gov. Jim Justice's 2017-18 budget plan would close a nearly $500 million shortfall by raising $450 million in new taxes -- the largest being a 0.2 percent gross receipts tax on ...
Gov. Jim Justice delivered his first State of the State address Wednesday, and his calls to raise numerous taxes to fill a $500 million budget hole and pay for government services has left Republican lawmakers critical of the state’s new leader. ...
In his State of the State Address Wednesday night, Governor Jim Justice (D-W.V.) proposed the largest tax hike in state history, increasing the sales and gas tax and creating a new Commercial Activities Tax. These proposals stand in stark contrast to ...
CHARLESTON — Tax and fee increases in Gov. Jim Justice’s proposed fiscal 2018 are disappointing according to some Northern Panhandle lawmakers. “He went the path of governors before him” by proposing tax increases, said Senate Majority Leader ...
CHARLESTON — Classroom teachers would get a 2-percent pay raise, highway projects including bridge upgrades on Interstate 70 in Ohio County would get completed and motorists would pay 10 cents more per gallon of gasoline if Gov. Jim Justice’s ...
CHARLESTON - West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Wednesday proposed a combination of budget cuts, tax increases and reforms and potential bonding measures with the goal of balancing the Mountain State's budget and, with the support of the 83rd West ...
In his first State of the State address Wednesday evening, Gov. Jim Justice presented lawmakers with a plan to close a $497 million budget gap in the 2018 fiscal year. That’s the latest estimate from the Governor’s Office about just how big that ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Gov. Jim Justice has proposed government cuts and incremental tax increases to close a projected $500 million West Virginia budget deficit next year. The newly elected Democrat also wants a 2 percent raise for classroom ...
CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice didn't sugar-coat West Virginia's budget problems, but he tried to provide hope during his State of the State address before legislators on Wednesday. He told reporters before the address that the problems include a $123 ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice’s administration is proposing a budget that fills an estimated $500 million gap for next fiscal year with only an estimated $26 million in cuts and an estimated $450 million in increased revenue, including the ...
Recent editorials from West Virginia newspapers: ___ Feb. 5 The Beckley Register-Herald on state Senate President Mitch Carmichael: Senate President Mitch Carmichael is going to need all of the ...
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