Date:
Thu, 08/25/2011
Kentucky Auditor candidate John Kemper proposed a solution today to the state's immediate need to make $28 million interest payment to the federal government and avoiding the loss of $640 million in tax credits by Kentucky businesses related to unemployment insurance loans.
"Governor Beshear should go ahead and pay the money out of the rainy day fund on September 30 when it is due. Frankfort is gridlocked over trying to score political points over this, while Kentucky taxpayers twist in the wind. We can't afford to play these games. An independent auditor would tell them to get on past this as efficiently as possible, so that's what I'm doing."
