A week ago Wednesday, Gov. Charlie Crist quietly signed a new state budget that cuts spending by $6 billion from the previous year. On the very next day, he announced that he would withhold an additional 4 percent from state agencies in anticipation of budget cuts yet to come. Call it a fiscal double whammy.
Crist did the same thing last year, in preparation for reductions in state revenue collections that were projected because of the failing economy. The projections came true.
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