Definition of a state budget cut hard to pin down

Revenue, reform and, of course, cuts. Those are the options Washington state lawmakers will weigh this month as they try to balance a budget deficit projected to be about a billion dollars through the middle of 2013.

By RACHEL LA CORTE, Associated Press | Updated on January 03, 2012

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Revenue, reform and, of course, cuts. Those are the options Washington state lawmakers will weigh this month as they try to balance a budget deficit projected to be about a billion dollars through the middle of 2013.

But what, exactly, is a budget cut? It depends on whom you ask.

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