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California’s budget gap jumps to $16 billion (Here comes the tax hikes)
LA Times ^ | 2/20/08 | By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

Posted on 02/20/2008 11:58:35 AM PST by BurbankKarl

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To: El Cid

That $43.7 billion does not count the federal contribution. I’m sure they wouldn’t want to stop spending $43.7 billion because it could jeopardize another $5 billion or so. </sarcasm>


41 posted on 02/20/2008 2:28:59 PM PST by Tai_Chung
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To: BurbankKarl

bump


42 posted on 02/20/2008 3:01:41 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

In two weeks it will be $2 billion more.


43 posted on 02/20/2008 3:02:22 PM PST by BurbankKarl
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To: RC2
They will keep doing this until the people of California finally allow them to raise their property taxes.

And then they will continue to spend more than they have. Hey, we got illegals to support and more on the way.

Regards

44 posted on 02/20/2008 3:34:52 PM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
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To: BurbankKarl

How’s that Karl?


45 posted on 02/20/2008 3:36:09 PM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
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To: patton
Wouldn’t work - Sacramento is on the Pacific plate - just result in valuable land sliding under the whorehouse.

Not unless Sacramento relocated itself somewhere south of San Francisco.


46 posted on 02/20/2008 3:40:30 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone

ok, I give - where is it?


47 posted on 02/20/2008 5:22:39 PM PST by patton (cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
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To: patton

It’s about 80 miles ENE of San Francisco, not far from the Sierra Nevada foothills. It’s well within the North American Plate.


48 posted on 02/20/2008 5:51:10 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone

Well, I was wrong on that one. Funny how we can have improper notions for years - I thought it was down near LA!

LOL


49 posted on 02/20/2008 5:53:46 PM PST by patton (cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
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To: patton

Eventually, Los Angeles will be where San Francisco is, and San Francisco will either be an island or perhaps disappear into the depths off the California coast. Probably the latter.

This is happening at a rate of over 2 inches a year which is pretty dramatic in geologic terms.

If you’re 50 years old, Los Angeles has shifted over 8 feet north of where it was when you were born.

It pretty much explains why there are earthquakes.


50 posted on 02/20/2008 6:21:23 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: dashing doofus

It would be nice if Che-Porter lost for sure. I heard a pole last week where Shaneen was leading Sununu 47-41. I hope we don’t lose that seat.


51 posted on 02/21/2008 9:44:54 AM PST by HenpeckedCon (B. Hussein/Bernie Sanders-08)
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To: gpapa

“The demon-rats and RINOs in Sacramento are stuck on stupid.”

Don’t blame them.
Californian’s are getting the politicians they voted for.

Time and again California Voters have defeated ballot proposals that could have gotten them out of this mess, and passed ones that have gotten them deeper into it...

At some point, someone is going to have to pay the Butcher’s Bill for runaway Liberalism, and it it’s better now, than later...


52 posted on 02/21/2008 9:49:20 AM PST by tcrlaf (VOTE DEMOCRAT-You'll look great in a Burka!)
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To: HwyChile

“the referendums fail under heavy union pressure, and he turns into another go-along to get-along Politician.”

You can’t blame arnold for that.

California voters have been very clear that they want MORE liberalism, especially if it’s “Free”...


53 posted on 02/21/2008 9:52:47 AM PST by tcrlaf (VOTE DEMOCRAT-You'll look great in a Burka!)
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To: HenpeckedCon

Sigh. It would be a shame if Sununu lost, but I also read that he’s vulnerable. The magic of the Shaheen name....


54 posted on 02/21/2008 10:24:27 AM PST by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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To: Tai_Chung

Nice chart. From the state’s budget document I’m guessing, or from the LBO.

It would be nice if they changed the labels on the expenditure side from K-12 education, to payments to unionized teachers, administrators, and support staff.

From “corrections and rehab” to “payments to prison guard union workers.”

From “higher ed” to “payments to unionized professors and college staff”

etc,etc.

The unions call the shots, IMO. Painfully evident in Kah-lee-fornya, when Arnold reversed field after the unions strongly opposed his referendums.


55 posted on 02/21/2008 10:30:26 AM PST by dashing doofus (Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber)
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