West Virginia lawmakers draft budget with more cuts

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — While some West Virginia lawmakers drafted a budget proposal for the coming year emphasizing government cuts, Gov. Jim Justice says the Legislature's Republican leadership has failed so far to produce its spending plan as promised halfway through the two-month legislation session.

Justice says it's state lawmakers' most important job.

Meanwhile, Republican Delegates Pat McGeehan and Michael Folk, who head the Liberty Caucus, say their proposal would halt government growth, cut $84 million from this year's spending level and won't raise taxes.

Accompanying legislation wasn't immediately introduced.

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1. The Republicans have really turned WV around. Since they took over the the House and Senate,

they have made it a Right to Work for Less State, did away with the prevailing wage and turned a surplus into a deficit. They still have their guns by god.

[Squinch]

2. Because, hey, WV really has just too much money. They really need to cut some programs.

WVers are all spoiled. Do you know that almost all of them have refrigerators?

Poor people just aren't doing poverty the way they should these days.