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[jimkress]

Everywhere else has been slashed to the bone,

LOL! Oh yeah, the coffee money has been cut by 10%.

[Joe Boucher]

Try eliminating about half of the programs and agencies the Calif. govt. funds. Any one with half a brain should understand that govt. in Calif is way bloated. Quit raising taxes, the people can't afford to pay more, so cut out very stupid programs. That should more then balance their budget.

[kancel]

Top Democrat budget writers have delivered an ultimatum to Republicans: either support tax hikes and a plan to borrow from schools or the state will be forced to take money from local governments. Republicans branded the threat "extortion."

I grew up in California although I left six years ago (exactly today in fact). I remember in high school paying the state a few hundred dollars a year for the "privlege" of living/working there. This was while I was in high school- you know when I was making minimum wage for 16 hours a week nine months out of the year. I couldn't have topped but a couple a thousand a year!! They seemed to take almost as much as the Feds.

I remember the year they couldn't cover all the checks they had written out for tax returns . If I remember right there were some banks taht wouldn't even take the checks cause they didn't trust the state to pay up. Funny- they had the money when it was origianny confiscated out of our checks but when ti was time to pay it back it wasn't there.

My mother lives in one hellhole of a neighborhood. A house down the street just sold for half a million!! You couldn't pay me to live in that nieghborhood again- but somebody else just dropped a pretty good chunk of change.

Now imagine the property taxes on a half a million dollar house. And then when you realize that that is in a sh.tty nieghborhhod- my goodness it just blows my mind!! Don't forget the state income taxes on the guy who can afford that half a million dollar house.

And the da*n Dems need MORE money????????

I wish California weather was anywhere else- its the only thing I miss!!

[faintpraise]

It's a good thing California can't print money.

[NormsRevenge]

Although Democrats control both houses, they need Republican support to reach the two-thirds majority required to pass a spending package.

SkreW the 'Rats!

DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists



GO SIMON

[boris]

The Republicans should simply fold their hands and tell the Democrats to "handle it". Whatever is done should be done by a strict party vote: all the "R"s should vote against, all the "D"s should vote for.

It's lose-lose for the Dems; either way they can be slaughtered with attack ads later....IF the Republicowards had the guts to do so.

--Boris

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

All they would have to do is roll back the 37% INCREASE in state expenditures that they enacted during the first three years of Dufus' administration. Even with a rollback to 15%, there would be a $10-15B SURPLUS right now, even given Dufus' expert handling of the energy situation last year....Facts are excerpts from Tom McKlintock interviews I have heard recently.

Of course, the media will never report this.