Of the last eight years, only last year produced a relatively rancor-free budget, completed on May 5.
In fact, the biggest legislative threats to getting a state budget completed are the printouts showing how the $4 billion would be spread among the state's schools.
Clegg said that, two months before election day, the coalition had – in the form of the budget – completed its last act of any "significant decision-making".
The budget is now 18 days late, and legislative leaders had hoped to have the budget completed before members of the Legislature went home for the Passover and Easter holidays.
Primer is of note for its extremely low budget (completed for $7,000), experimental plot structure, philosophical implications, and complex technical dialogue, which Carruth, a college graduate with a degree in mathematics and a former engineer, chose not to simplify for the sake of the audience.
However, the annual budget, complete with the setting of council tax, is an exception.
The Cook County Board of Commissioners on Friday handily approved the county's 2013 budget, complete with some $40 million worth of new taxes on the sales of guns and cigarettes.
