REP. ROCH INTRODUCES COST-SAVING
AMENDMENT TO STATE BUDGET
Amendment eliminates more than 4000 vacant state jobs
SANTA FE, NM—State Representative Dennis Roch (R-Tucumcari) introduced an amendment to House Bill 2, the General Appropriations Act, which would have de-authorized more than four thousand vacant positions in state government.
“Citizens throughout New Mexico should not be asked to shoulder additional tax burdens,” Roch said during the debate on the amendment, “when taxpayer dollars continue to fund empty desks in Santa Fe.”
The amendment, which was tabled on a nearly party-line vote, would have eliminated thousands of positions. The consequential savings could have closed much of the estimated $300 million gap between state revenue and state spending.
“New Mexico is not undertaxed; it continues to overspend,” said Roch. “It’s unfortunate that some legislators prefer to make taxpayers pick up the cost of the state’s overspending.”
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