CATS Notes
There is a very likable feature in the CATS budget: some of the new taxes in the plan would expire after one year, a feature "aimed at shifting the budget impasse to the next governor and legislature." While "temporary taxes" tend to become permanent in Tennessee, this one-year-expiration feature has the benefit of providing the next governor - Phil Bredesen, Van Hilleary or one of lesser candidates - the opportunity to prove their campaign contention that bad management and too much spending by the current administration has created the fiscal crisis.