{"id":3130,"date":"2022-04-16T18:28:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T18:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/?p=3130"},"modified":"2022-04-16T18:29:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T18:29:52","slug":"tennessee-revenue-for-march-348-8-million-more-than-budgeted-annual-surplus-hits-2-5-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/?p=3130","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Revenue for March $348.8 Million More Than Budgeted, Annual Surplus Hits $2.5 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This provides an opportunity to pursue two important goals: cut taxes (e.g. finally abolish the privilege tax, abolish the franchise &amp; excise tax and\/or reduce the sales tax) and\/or substantially reduce the federal government&#8217;s stranglehold over Tennessee policies by reducing dependency on federal funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another, unconventional, idea would be to drastically increase state legislators&#8217; salaries, thereby making them less susceptible to special interests (e.g. potential job offers).  Currently, Tennessee state legislators receive a salary of less than $25K per year. Raising this amount to about $100K would cost about $10 million per year and make state senators and representatives more independent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tennessee could also become an entirely debt-free state, paying off its remaining debt of about $1.5 billion dollars at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tennesseestar.com\/2022\/04\/16\/tennessee-revenues-for-march-348-8-million-more-than-budgeted-annual-surplus-hits-2-5-billion\/\">https:\/\/tennesseestar.com\/2022\/04\/16\/tennessee-revenues-for-march-348-8-million-more-than-budgeted-annual-surplus-hits-2-5-billion\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This provides an opportunity to pursue two important goals: cut taxes (e.g. finally abolish the privilege tax, abolish the franchise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-archive"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3132,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3130\/revisions\/3132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedandhappy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}