"The hardest decision of my political career" is how one local lawmaker described the tax increase that passed the House of Representatives Sunday night.
State Representative Bill Mitchell says it was the first tax increase he's ever supported from his time in local government all the way to the state capitol.
The Governor is likely to veto the budget if it gets through the Senate because it doesn’t have enough of the Governor's reforms. Rep. Mitchell points out the proposed budget was balanced, and he felt that was a reform on its own.
The income tax hike would be raised to 4.95-percent, slightly less than the five percent income tax rate that expired in 2014.
