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Fast Facts:

Spending increased 39%, inflation-adjusted, under Schweitzer.

Projected 2013 shortfall: $473 million.

State employees added over ten years:1,500.

Next year, over 750 of the state's 12,500 workers will make more than $100,000.

Total state spending per year: $3.8 billion.

To also submit your proposal to the Governor's site, click here

 

Dig into the budget

Montana's budget

Sunshine review

Study: Where the biggest spending increases occured

News articles- Montana & US

Wall Street Journal Feb. 18

Independent Record Jan. 28

Gazette Feb 8

Missoulian Feb. 8

Gazette Feb. 21

Other states' woes:

Spending growth haunts states

How other states are cutting

 

 

 

Real Cuts to Fix Montana's Budget

What is Cut the Budget Tea Party?

We hold rallies:

Helena. March 3, 11-1.Capitol steps.

Locations around Montana. April 15.

We gather proposals for REAL CUTS from citizens.

We call for limited government.

Help cut the budget in Montana.

We need your ideas.

Government revenues are declining. Now is the time to advance the project of limited government. Montana’s budget has been out-of-control under the Schweitzer administration. We must halt the explosion in government programs and spending.

Governor Schweitzer has called for citizen input, for ideas how to cut state spending. He is giving a palladium coin to the person who proposes the best idea. This is Mickey Mouse. We need real cuts! The governor is pretending to be fiscally prudent. The deception cannot be allowed.

Citizens, retired government workers, and hardworking taxpayers, can certainly out-do the governor’s paltry plan. Let’s find $480 million in cuts. That would take Montana’s budget back to where it stood before Schweitzer took office, adjusted for inflation. Montana has been on an Obama-like spending binge.

Provide us with your ideas. Ideas will be voted on by a series of Tea Party rallies held across Montana in April. The resulting Real Budget Cuts will be presented to lawmakers and in concurrent press conferences around Montana, timed to appear prior to the governor’s press stunt.