If you follow budget negotiations at the federal and state level, you’ve likely heard of logrolling. One legislator agrees to accept his colleagues’ pet projects if those colleagues will accept his. The end result tends to be a larger budget with more spending.
In a “reverse logrolling” scenario, negotiators agree to accept the lower dollar figure assigned to a particular budget item. The John Locke Foundation has applied the reverse logrolling principle to the N.C. House and Senate budget plans and found that lawmakers could free up $383 million in next budget. That’s money that could be used to shore up state reserves, provide additional tax relief, or address other top priorities.
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