Steve Williams on Budget & Economy

	Steve Williams on Budget & Economy

Invest in infrastructure; have to have water systems

Right now we have more infrastructure money available than has ever been at the local level in our nation's history. We have to have water systems. Throughout southern West Virginia, there are areas the coal companies provided the water systems and the coal companies have long gone out of business and there was nobody to maintain the upkeep of the water systems. And now trucks are trucking in freshwater. That's a description of a third world country, not the most prosperous nation in the world. Source: Mountain State Spotlight on 2024 West Virginia Governor race , May 17, 2024

Ensure services are financed, but balance the budget

Williams believes in basing tax revenue estimates on what the state is actually bringing in and basing a balanced budget on those numbers and ensuring that government services are being financed. "If you are being fiscally responsible and very conservative on your projections, very conservative on expenditures, but being very aggressive on the expectation of what we're going to be delivering, you find yourself creating a path where you're accomplishing things that nobody else ever imagined." Source: Parkersburg News on 2024 West Virginia Gubernatorial race , Nov 4, 2023

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