(The Center Square) – Indiana received more than $200 million this month from tobacco product manufacturers under the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), Attorney General Todd Rokita announced.
faced. he to fight a bill through his legislature. that gave lots of time for people to express disagreement. greta: have people been hurt to get your budget under control? in texas we hear the education system got slashed. did people get slashed and take a beating, any big groups? no. we had one very, very modest reduction in public education after years of increases. public education might be understood, higher percentage of the indiana state budget than any state in america. 56 cent of every dollar guess to k-12. that we protected. we have found, as i sometimesy%7 say, would you be surprised how much government you will never miss. maybe it was helpful in our case that the state was break in good times when we came in, in 2005.
faced. he to fight a bill through his legislature. that gave lots of time for people to express disagreement. greta: have people been hurt to get your budget under control? in texas we hear the education system got slashed. did people get slashed and take a beating, any big groups? no. we had one very, very modest reduction in public education after years of increases. public education might be understood, higher percentage of the indiana state budget than any state in america. 56 cent of every dollar guess to k-12. that we protected. we have found, as i sometimesy%7 say, would you be surprised how much government you will never miss. maybe it was helpful in our case that the state was break in good times when we came in, in 2005. most states were doing fine
he and i worked through what the monthly expenses would be for me, my rent, food and et cetera. he said i ll throw in an extra $100. i said per month? he said, no, for the end of the year. reporter: but that could be a chink in daniels armor as a former budget director under george w. bush, dance was there when the country went from a surplus to the deficit. he says the problem wasn t him but that the bubble burst and we had a recession. wouldn t have mattered what policies you tried to implement. reporter: he s been a conservative governor pushing for a balanced indiana state budget, killing funding for planned parenthood, enacting one of the most aggressive school voucher programs in the country. but he s been whacked by conservatives for proposing a truce on social issues until the country gets its finances fixed. someone who doesn t believe that the social issues are part of the agenda and are part of the total platform, that person is not going to be nominated by the re