Mike Conaway: “If you look at those numbers, we have had tax receipt increases here, but they have come in the right way. They have…”

“If you look at those numbers, we have had tax receipt increases here, but they have come in the right way. They have come in the way where you have had more people paying and all those kinds of things. I am hopeful that the budget that does come forward understands that we have got a spending problem and not a revenue problem. If you are in business, as you did in the car business, and my good friend did in his small businesses, and you are looking at deficits, you rarely have the option of raising revenues when you are in business. Yes, you have got to put more emphasis in sales; you have to do all those kinds of things. But the way you are most assured of being able to deal with your deficit is to cut your expenditures. That is where most responsible businessmen go at first when they are in circumstances where they need to eliminate a deficit. There is more emphasis on the cutting of spending and trimming back on expenditures and then try to do what you can with revenues.”