Georgia 2019 Budget

The State budget is $26 billion. Spending includes $13.884 (53.4%) in subsidies for education and healthcare:

$7.514 billion (38.9%) for K-12 public schools

$3.276 billion (12.6%) for Medicaid and Peach Care

$3.094 billion (11.9%) for State Universities

The other $12.116 billion (46.6%) of our State Taxes goes to other items including:

$2.028 billion (7.8%) for Transportation

$1.326 billion (5.1%) for Debt Service

$1.249 billion (4.8%) for Department of Corrections

$1.222 billion (4.7% for General Government

$1.196 billion (4.6%) for Behavioral Health

$988 million (3.8%) for Other Public Safety

$832 million (3.2%) for Human Services

$468 million (1.8%) for Other Healthcare

https://gbpi.org/2018/overview-georgias-2019-fiscal-year-budget/

Georgia’s 2018 fiscal year runs July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018 and the total budget available to the state is $45.2 billion. That includes $25 billion in state funding, $13.9 billion in federal funding and $6.4 billion in other funds.

https://gbpi.org/2017/georgia-state-budget-overview-fiscal-year-2018/

Comments

I would like to see the State be smarter in spending tax money. Public Transit should be privatized. Bonds should not be used to fund anything, because interest makes costs double.  Accrual accounts should be set up instead to fund major expenditures.  Lots of bad laws need to be repealed. This includes the UN Agenda 21 laws that created unelected Regional Commissions.

Education needs reform to remove the Liberal propaganda from the curriculum. We need to make students primarily responsible for their own education and this will require adopting Homeschool strategies.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader