University Daily Kansan. October 8. 1982
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Legislators say budget forecast grim
By United Press International
TOPEKA-State legislators said yesterday that unless Kansas experiences unusual growth in revenues in the rest of fiscal 1883, taxes must be increased to spend cutting drastically to counter a reserve depletion forecast for March.
The state saw only 0.02 percent growth] in revenue in the first quarter of fiscal 1983 over 1982.
The grim news came at a meeting of the Legislative Budget Committee, where chief legislative researcher Ryan said Kansas would be $89.9 million less in growth it continued its current trend of zero growth in revenues, namely taxes.
Ryan said that even if Kansas experienced a 3.8 percent revenue growth rate, the average growth rate for fiscal 1982, it would see a negative effect in the million by March 1983. The state began paying with a cash reserve of $92.4 million.
The 1983 fiscal year ends in June, and money for the entire year has already been appropriated to state agencies by the 1982 Legislature.
Kansas law forbids the state to go into debt, so steps would have to be taken by the governor and Legislature to either increase taxes or cut the 1983 budget to deplete the state's ending balance. legislators said.
House Speaker Wendell Lady, R-Overland Park and vice chairman of the committee, said he and other members will work to budget forecast for the rest of the
year, but he was not prepared for the news he got.
"EVEN I did not anticipate that the bottom would drop out of the revenues like it did," he said. "It's a very grim picture."
Lady predicted the state would have to cut at least $90 million from its $1.454 billion budget in 1883 to eliminate the $89.9 deficit outlined by Ryan. Such a drastic cut would allow the state only to break even.
"But," Lady said, "had we passed the severance tax last session, we wouldn't be in the critical position we have now." The 1982 Legislature narrowly defeated the tax on mineral production, which would have raised $124 million as proposed by Gov. John Carlin.
Although the committee took no action, Sen. Pallah Hess, R-Wichita, warned Carlin to begin making budget cuts immediately. He said the governor's decision to wait until Nov. 12, 10 days after the general election, to decide how to deal with the situation was politically motivated.
Legislative and executive leaders are to meet Nov. 12 to project revenue earnings for the final six months of fiscal 1983. Carlin has said he would wait until then to decide whether to implement the so-called allotment system. Under such a program, the governor could cut the budgets of all state agencies currently receiving state dollars.
Hess, the influential leader of the Senate Ways and Means Committee.
said the state had "no choice but to go ahead and start cutting." He recommended an immediate hire freeze of between 3 percent and 6 percent.
RYAN SAID every percentage point cut from the budget would equal $15 million, and a 6 percent budget cut would equal a $90 million cost.
House Minority Leader Fred Wesley, D-Baxter Springs, balked at the idea of cutting state aid to school districts, saying property taxes across the state would skyrocket if the state cut education dollars. Lady said he was more concerned with potential cuts to welfare agencies funded under the state Social and Rehabilitation Services Department.
Mike Swenson, assistant news secretary for Carlin, denied that political reasons motivated Carlin's decision to wait until the Nov. 12 meeting.
"The governor believes we need to wait for the consensus estimate group to meet because those are the real numbers that we need to be working," he said. "A zero growth rate is not a realistic picture. We need to wait until the hard figures are in and it would be imprudent not to."
Budget director Lynn Muchmore said he did not think Ryan was predicting a zero growth rate when he made his presentation to legislators. Instead, Ryan was "just laying out what could happen," Muchmore said. But at the meeting, Ryan told lawmakers his scenario offered a "pretty decent" picture of what they could expect.
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Justice Department says government doesn't unfairly prosecute resisters
By United Press International
LOS ANGELES—The Justice Department yesterday denied that the government was prosecuting the noisest opponents of draft registration and requested a one-week delay to disprove the charges.
The denial came at a hearing before a federal judge who ordered the Justice Department to decide whether it would turn over White House documents by a draft registration register or invoke executive privilege and refuse.
Lawyers for David Wayte, 21, of Pasadena, Calif., have asked for documents pertaining to top level meetings with presidential inages in a case could affect the administration's crackdown on draft registration resisters.
U. S. District Judge Terry Hatter told the government it must decide by Tuesday whether to refuse to turn over documents requested by the defense.
Wayne's attorney William Smith said they had requested documents relating
Those meetings, held between the summer of 1981 and January 1982, involved policy decisions regarding registration staff registration resisters, Smith said.
to meetings between White House counsel Edwin Meese and the Military
IF THE GOVERNMENT invokes executive privilege, the judge must order some kind of sanction for refusal to turn over the documents. Smith said, "There is the most likely sanction would be dismissal of the indictment against Watey."
"We think the government is runn- rass about some of the things that occurred at these meetings and they are going to turn over the documents," Smith said.
A White House spokesman refused to comment on whether the government would invoke executive privilege because the case is in litigation.
Assistant U.S. Attorney David Kline told the court the government had not discriminated against Wayte, a former Yale philosophy student under indictment, by choosing to prosecute him for failure to register for the draft.
--ment, by choosing to prosecute him for failure to register for the draft.
In a backset to the administration, Hatter made a preliminary ruling last week that the government discriminated against Wayte — one of an estimated 874,000 men who have not received the judge placed the burden of proof on the government to show its prosecution of Wayte was not discriminatory.
"THEER was absolutely no intent to single out a vocal (resister)," Kline said. "We did not engage in any kind of selective prosecutor."
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