INDIANAPOLIS (AP): Indiana lawmakers have approved a new state budget increasing base school funding by 2.5% percent each of the next two years as they brought this year’s legislative session to a close.
The House and Senate votes Wednesday night came after Republicans touted the spending plan as making strides toward improving the state’s lagging teacher pay. Republicans say it is a responsible plan that protects the state in case of an economic downturn by maintaining its $2 billion in cash reserves.
But Democrats faulted it for actually doing little to boost teacher salaries or fund other needed programs such as subsidies to adoptive parents and youth suicide prevention programs.
Democratic Sen. Karen Tallian of Portage calls the Republican budget plan “too meager, too tight-fisted.”
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I GUESS I WILL NEVER GET IT. MY SOCIAL SECURITY. (AGE 68) PUT IN OVER 200K. RECEIVED CUT AFTER CUT AND DICTATED HOW MUCH I CAN MAKE WHILE RECEIVING MY OWN MONEY, OR A PORTION OF IT. WHAT? THEY KEEP TELLING US WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF THAT MONEY.
MY TEAMSTER PENSION ONLY HAS 13 BILLION. PBGC THINKS IT IS TAKING OVER THAT MONEY. PBGC IS BILLIONS IN THE RED. WHAT?
NOW I READ INDIANA HAS A TWO BILLION DOLLAR CASH RESERVE. LOTTERY CLAIMS TO PUT 30 MILLION IN TEACHERS, POLICE, FIREFIGHTERS ETC. 90 MILLION. WHERE DOES THIS STUFF STOP? I AM RETIRED AND HAVE A SMALL PART TIME JOB, STILL PAYING FED.,STATE, LOCAL TAXES. MY WIFE AND I PAID ALMOST 4 THOUSAND DOLLARS APRIL 15, 2019. WHERE DOES THIS STUFF STOP? I LOVE THE CHILDREN, I HAVE FOUR GROWN MEN. GRANDCHILDREN, YOU PEOPLE THINK YOU CAN JUST KEEP TAKING SENIORS MONEY. STOP IT. WHO IS GOING TO HELP ME PAY MY LIFE INS., MEDICARE SUPL.. MY WIFE IS 63, HER HEALTH INS. WHO IS GOING TO HELP ME? STOP MAKING PEOPLE DEPENDENT ON SOCIAL SERVICES. PLEASE, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
JIM RICE COLUMBIA CITY, INDIANA
JIM BANKS AND I GREW UP IN THE SAME TRAILER PARK, YES I AM OLDER