This budget is dead, better one is needed

The news that House Speaker Gordon D. Fox has shelved Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee’s current fiscal 2012 budget is a step in the right direction. Its combination of modest expense reductions, odd incentives, ill-timed “investments” and the massive change to the state’s sales tax regime were not a recipe for fiscal prudence or for clear-headed

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