Early this week, JLF released an alternative state budget that avoids any new or extended tax increases – and uses more than $1 billion in budget savings to reduce income taxes for households and businesses. Analyst Joe Coletti authored Freedom Budget 2005, which is available at JLF’s web site. Click on “Policy Reports.” Meantime, John Hood discussed the state budget with News 14 Carolina and weighed in on film-industry incentives that are in the Senate budget with WHQR-FM in Wilmington. Chad Adams argued against a state lottery in an interview with WTVD in the Triangle.