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Post by Cat Fan on Nov 7, 2018 17:35:57 GMT -5
You want to hear a scam. Well each university (and state agency) gets an approved budget. The GA will come back at some point during the year and then tell said university or state agency that they can only spend X% of said approved budget. So, if they say we can only spend 98% of our budget they have essentially cut the budget an additional 2%. Said university or state agency then has to scramble to readjust spending mid year. In other words, rob Peter to pay Paul to keep within their new "revised" budget. This is the kind of shady, behind the scenes, politically motivated shenanigans that get pulled on a regular basis. Those same things have happened under every administration, Democratic and Republican since budgets have been around. All state agencies budgets are tentative, in that each budget is based on tax projections (which is purely a guess on incoming tax collections), and the hope that nothing catastrophic happens that would require a shifting of funds to meet higher priorities or emergencies. That is hardly a scam, but normal operations in every state and the federal government.
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