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Results imply extra millions, bureau says By William Ramsey
State income report is deceptive
By William Ramsey Kansan staff writer
She said that people had jumped to conclusions by comparing the figures for expenditures and spendable income, but state directly that there was a surplus.
A Census Bureau report about state income and expenditures released yesterday has sparked confusion about whether Kansas has excess spendable income.
A Census Bureau official yesterday said that such a presumption was wrong.
The report showed the state took in $1.5 billion and spent $4.2 billion in Fiscal Year 1990, which ended June 30, 1990.
The problem is that the numbers suggest that Kansas has a $400 million excess of spendable income, said Ed Krug of one of the state's top budget officials.
"We should have anticipated that this would happen," said Donna Hirsch, a survey statistician who
Hirsch said that she had received calls from people in Kansas and in Indiana concerning the report on the 50 states' income and spending.
Indiana's state revenue total also was listed higher than its expenditures.
"I can see how it would be a problem if they have this deficit and the report says they have an excess income," she said.
However, Hirsch said that the report was not an accounting statement, and it carried a disclaimer about making connections between separate data.
The revenue total is higher partly because of insurance investments that have put money into state coffers but will not be spent soon. Hirsch said.
In 1909, Kansas brought in $750 million in insurance investments, yet the investment expenditures totaled only $375 million, she said.
Ahrens, chief fiscal analyst for the Legislative Research Department, said that pension fund earnings and other federal funds that might not be immediately spent accounted for the Census Bureau numbers.
In reality, the state spent $100 million more than it collected in tax, fee
and idle fund earnings in Fiscal Year 1990.
Similarly, the state spent $113 million more in Fiscal Year 1991 than it took in, drawing on its general fund reserves. Now the balance is projected to be only $110.7 million by June 30.
"They do this to us every year with this report," Ahrens said.
That is misleading and a disservice to taxpayers. Ahrens said.
That report showed the 50 states spent $6.3 billion less during the last fiscal year.
What is important in Kansas, he said, is income to and from the general fund, which is made of revenue from government agencies and earnings on idle funds.
Ahrens said federal funds were provided for specific purposes and were not used for the general operation of state government.
Because some of it cannot be used to operate state government, the fluctuations of the general fund are the sig- nature and not total money available, he said.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
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