Warning: Constant ABSPATH already defined in /home/flanews/public_html/wp-config.php on line 34
Capitol News Service » Blog Archive » Budget Showdown Produces List of “What if’s”

Welcome to

Capitol News Service

Florida's Best Political Coverage on Television

 


 


 


Recent Posts

RSS Quote of the Day

  • Charles Baudelaire
    "Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation."
  • Wilson Mizner
    "The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."
  • Benjamin Disraeli
    "Silence is the mother of truth."
  • H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
    "Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness."

Budget Showdown Produces List of “What if’s”

May 19th, 2015 by Mike Vasilinda

State agencies are raising a myriad of things government would not be able to do if July first comes and goes without a new state budget. As Mike Vasilinda tells us the list of what state government would stop doing is 65 pages long.

The Department of Revenue says child support payments would stop because no 0one would be on duty to process them.

The national Guard would stop training. Fishing licenses couldn’t be sold, and nuisance bears would be left roaming.

The scenarios are all contained in 65 pages submitted to the Governor detailing what state agencies would and would not due if lawmakers don’t pass a budget by July first.

The Department of Law enforcement says it would no longer be able to run background checks on potential gun buyers.

But here’s the catch. Under state law, if the gun buyer doesn’t get an answer from FDLE in three days they get the gun. Pawn shop owner Mark Folmar is comfortable felons would get caught in the end.

“And I’m sure once everything gets going again, we’d have to turn in all the paperwork on people who did buy guns. and the government would check, if there were felons who bought them, I’m sure they’d go pick them up” says the pawn dealer.

And forget about buying a lottery ticket. 9 thousand retailers would be out 6 million a week they earn on commissions. James Miller of the Florida Retail Federation

Says his members will lose even more. “So when you don’t have people wanting to go in and buy lottery tickets, and while they are there, they also get food, snacks, beer, gas, whatever it might be, you’re also losing these extra purchases they would make.”

The child abuse hot line would continue taking calls and investigating reports of abuse. Unemployment benefits would continue to flow. But the Agency for People with disabilities says it would have to kick out more than 600 people from state care.

Highway construction projects would also stop in their tacks.

But here’s something motorists might like: The state would stop collecting tolls.

Lawmakers begin a special session on June first that will last at least 20 days. The have been feuding over Medicaid expansion, which ironically, could stop paying current providers if no budget deal is reached.

Posted in State News | Comments Off on Budget Showdown Produces List of “What if’s”

Comments are closed.

copyright © 2016 by Capitol News Service | Powered by Wordpress | Hosted by LyonsHost.com