With Shortfall Mounting, California Budget Deal Is Stymied, Again
Democrats railroaded through a budget package, but Schwarzenegger said he would veto it
Political observers are not optimistic about what will come next. Schwarzenegger told lawmakers yesterday to stay in Sacramento through next week's holiday, if need be. The state treasurer has said that without a budget deal, the state could run out of cash by February.
"The governor keeps saying it's Armageddon, and I think that's probably right," says Barbara O'Connor, director of the Institute for the Study of Politics and the Media at California State UniversitySacramento. "The tempers and the rhetoric are certainly at a boiling point. I don't know who blinks first."
According to a recent analysis by the National Conference of State Legislatures, the slowing economy has been drying up state tax revenues across the country, and state governments are currently facing a collective budget gap of at least $100 billion over the next year and a half. Remarkably, California is responsible for nearly half of that shortfall.
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California's budget deal stymied again...
I live in the province of Ontario, Canada. More properly, it should be called "OnTAXio" because of all the socialism that has crept in up here and economically wrecked the place.
I wish we had had a "Proposition 13" back in the late 1970's when California was smart enough to pass it!
As your President Reagan so wisely said; "Well, if you give the rascals the money, they'll spend it!". Governments are the same everywhere! Deny them the funds as you have and they'll not SPEND you into bankruptcy! For the DIFFERENCE in the tax rates that WE have to pay up here and YOU pay down there, the Canadian state effectively owns both "my" cottage and Bentley motorcar with which I could get there! However, my services are no better than yours, we just have more bureaucrats. You see, it's the difference between YOUR "Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness" and OUR "Peace, Order and good [for which read: too much] Government".
It's a shame that we've (all) allowed this 'culture of dependency' on the state to corrupt the system. Ask yourself: Who is the government if it is not us? Whose money is the government's if not ours? "Public servants" are supposed to work for us through the government. Tell the government to cut their wages or 'take a hike' as Reagan did so successfully with the Air Traffic Controllers in 1981. Then, they might realize that they can no longer hold the public to ransom! Good luck to those civil servants getting jobs elsewhere in these trying times. Most of this coddling of and featherbedding in, public-sector unions is the fault of the 'bleeding hearts' and the Democrats who depend on them for votes. Remember always, that Democrats raise taxes and spend 'your' money to buy 'their' votes and Republicans dislike government, high taxes and work to hold the fort against the tax-and-spend Dems. I wish we had more "Republicans' up here in the frozen north instead of socialist and other form of leeches. We have sky-high taxes, lower productivity, little defence and (literally) crumbling infrastructure. And don't let the left-wing Democrats tell you about how superior the Canadian health-care system is to yours either! Again, ask yourself this; Why do so many Canadians go to the US for health-care services and operations? Or, let me put it another way: How many Americans do you know that go to Canada to obtain health-care? Think about it; you at least have freedom of choice in your health-care providers, we do not - ours is the state!!!
So write to your State legislator (likely, a Democrat) and tell him or, her to get with the program and swing the axe on services and civil servants that the State of California (for which read: you the taxpayer) can NO LONGER AFFORD. After all, their coming after you for MORE taxes in times like these is the equivalent of your going to your boss and asking for a raise because YOU spent too much money! Not likely!
Tell your legislator to have the State live WITHIN its means - as YOU have to!
Is there a compromise here?
Why do the Republicans want to cut funding to education? Do they want to make California students the dumbest in the nation? Or is there something more sinister here, like they want to keep working class kids the proles of 1984?
If they would cease their attacks on education, perhaps they would be able to get a compromise...
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