Fiscal Conservatism Gets Tillisized
As in torpedoed and blown out of the water: House Speaker Thom Tillis, an alleged fiscal conservative Republican from north Mecklenburg, has twisted enough arms and cut enough backroom deals to stuff upward of $28 million back into the Senate budget to help pay for an extension of the vaunted light-rail Lynx Blue Line. The money was originally, and wholly sensibly, not included in the Senate’s plan.
Running down the same track, a provision originally included in the Senate budget has been pulled that would have banned Charlotte transit officials from obligating state money for the proposed rail-transit line to north Mecklenburg – a project so fiscally foul and ass-backward insane that it doesn’t even qualify for federal funding.
All aboard the Thom-Thom Train Express.
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