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If you want your program, and are a member of the legisla-

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ture, that the legislature ——

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THE PRESIDENT: Just a minute.

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DELEGATE SHERBOW: I always said you shouldn't

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shift those budget things around. What I am saying is that

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the Governor will not have a budget that is his program,

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but if as members of the legislature they want these

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programs. Let me tell you the two ways in which it can

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be done: First they may reduce the Governor's budget.

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First all that is necessary is for the General Assembly

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to pass a law and provide the tax for it, or if they are

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not up to that, the program then can go into effect in the

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following year. The Governor then must fund the program,

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and you want to know something: Over 80 percent of what

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goes into that budget goes in because it is already in the

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law, and this is what is provided, and this is the orderly

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way in which it can and should be done.

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I say to you that there isn't anything that this

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Constitutional Convention could do that would more

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adversely affect this state and its fiscal affairs, and

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fiscal policies, than if you adopted this amendment, and I