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"It's definitely going to make it more difficult," said Leonard, 21. "I'm going to have to put in some extra hours, or cut back on my classes. I work full time to pay for it. My credit cards are going through the roof."
Paying more and getting less is a dominant theme that courses through the $54 billion state budget being pushed by the second-term governor.
Facing Florida's worst spending crunch in a decade, Bush is skimming money from college students, business professionals, city and county governments, prison inmates and a host of environmental programs to patch a leaky state budget.
Insisting on no new state taxes, the governor is moving money around to offset skyrocketing Medicaid costs while still maintaining cash for public schools, a political goal made tougher by new, voter-approved class-size limits.
Some allies decry plan
But Bush's proposals are alarming even fellow Republican lawmakers and usually loyal political supporters, who say the approach is not only unfair, it is fiscally unwise.
"It is basically a budget built on baling wire, string and duct tape," said state Senate Appropriations Chairman Ken Pruitt, R-Port St. Lucie.
And while Bush insists he's not raising taxes, the governor's blueprint for the coming year is completely dependent on an infusion of new, one-time cash -- about $1.5 billion poured into the state's operating fund from 34 previously untouchable trust funds.
Industries and business professionals who pay into these trusts see the governor's move as, essentially, a hand on their wallets.
"We've never felt great about paying fees, but when it went toward cleaning up leaking gas-station storage tanks, it made some sense," said Bob McVety, associate director of the Florida Petroleum Council, whose member companies pay a per-gallon fee into the state's Inland Protection trust fund.
Bush wants to take $26.2 million from that fund and pour it into the state's cash-strapped general revenue fund. The petroleum fees then could be used to hire teachers, or pay for social-services programs other state needs.
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