News analysis by Bill Davis, senior editor | Some consider Gov. Nikki Haley’s recently released $7.5 billion executive budget for 2016-17 to be a template for the General Assembly’s coming budget-writing process. But others wonder whether the effort and attention that the governor’s plan gets is really is akin to spitting in the wind.
Haley’s budget outlines her spending priorities for $7.5 billion of projected state General Fund tax revenues. The fund is usually the smallest of three in the state’s annual budget, which also includes federal pass-through dollars and programs, as well as fees and “other” funds culled from everything from state college tuition to driver’s license fees.
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