COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is laying out plans for how the state should deal with a budget that gets worse by the day.
Sanford releases his executive budget Friday.
On Thursday, the director of the Office of State Budget said legislators would have to decide how to handle a nearly $570 million gap between available money and spending demands on top of
$1 billion in budget cuts made since July. Those cuts have left the state with a budget of about $6 billion.
Sanford has promoted plans to push for eliminating corporate income taxes in the budget by eliminating some business and economic development tax breaks. He's also called for raising the
state's cigarette tax and using money from that to help cover an optional flat income tax system.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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