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The Mississippi State Tax Commission says that for the first three months of the fiscal year, revenues are 7.7 percent behind where experts thought they'd be.
Gov. Haley Barbour sliced nearly $172 million, or about 2.9 percent, from the $6 billion budget in early September because of the lagging revenues.
Barbour is in Asia on a business trip, but he has told state agencies repeatedly that the economy could continue to struggle for years.
Barbour has not ruled out further budget reductions in the remaining nine months of the fiscal year.
The huge deficit spending and smothering national debt has killed jobs in Mississippi and the rest of the nation.
We are having to borrow money from China to pay for the trillion dollar debt. Our debt is greater this year than all the years combined in the history of our country.
This lunacy spending must stop if we are to survive as a free nation.
We would have recovered by now if not for the sickening debt created this year by the current congress in DC.
Nunnelle is not responsible for the high un-employment in Mississippi and will help create jobs and put Mississippians back to work when he goes to Washington as our representative..