Friday, September 12, 2008

August numbers in: We're still dropping like a rock

From the governor's office:
ATLANTA – Governor Sonny Perdue announced today that net revenue collections for the month of August 2008 (FY09) totaled $1,259,630,000 compared to $1,353,789, 000 for August 2007 (FY08), a decrease of $94,159,000 or 7.0 percent.

The percentage decrease year-to-date for FY09 compared to FY08 is 6.8 percent.

UPDATE: Motor fuel taxes for the month are down 13.1 percent. People are buying less gas.

3 comments:

Victor said...

I thought Republican Economic Policies were supposed to prevent all these historic level Bank failures, Government Corporate bailouts and rapidly sprialing state revenues?

What are they saying went wrong or are they saying everything is wonderful?

Lucid Idiocy said...

Vic - where ya been?

I gotta tell you, I'm not too impressed with the economy. But it's going through a change.

Victor said...

been on the lamb Travis, on the lamb, just ask Nancy White and Rick Hutto for details. and if city council people ain't threatening me, gun toting dope dealers near day care centers and elementary schools are but don't worry, i'm not parnoid yet.