Report: Brown may put Calif. budget on the ballot

MSNBC ^ | December 9, 2010 | MSNBC

[americanophile]

California Gov.-elect Jerry Brown, who in 25 days will inherit a state in a decade-long economic crisis, is hinting that he will ask voters to make the choice of approving higher taxes or living with big cuts in government services.

In a meeting with Republican senators this week, Brown said he wants to "rip the Band-Aid off next year," referring to the state's budget woes, and hinted that a special election this summer was part of the plan, the Los Angeles Times reported.

California has furloughed state workers and cut some services, but is still in a deep economic well.

"He intimated strongly that he wanted to go to the ballot but did not say so explicitly," Republican Senate minority leader Bob Dutton told the Times.

[dragnet2]

I want more taxes....Please tax me more government!!!

Take my used furniture and used dog....

We want more taxes! Help us government! We want more taxes!

[GeronL]

The federal government will bail them out, just as they wll Michigan and whatever other states hit bankruptcy

[Amerigomag]

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
Professor Alexander Fraser Tytler

[Texas Eagle]

Raising taxes will do absolutely no good.

It will actually reduce revenues to California's treasury.

[RedStateRocker]

You may well be right, but I see the man as being the sort to *use* the left more than being part of the left.
Power and fame are the drug, the policies, the letter after the name, matter for nought,

[Tzimisce]

Oh this should be good. :)

[jetson]

Moonbeam is like the rest of the 60’s boneheads in Calif. He will feel every ones pain and ask all to work together. NO ILLEGAL FIX, NO BUDGET FIX AND NO TAX FIX (as in creating a better business atmosphere).

[BenLurkin]

http://www.johnspeedie.com/healy/chicken.wav

[americanophile]

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money...Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.””

- Alexis de Tocqueville

[GVnana]

California has a balanced budget amendment...

I'm just sayin'.

[NormsRevenge]

Turn out the lights,
The party is over.

-Dandy Don Meredith-

[tflabo]

Remember that Arrrhnold put many anti-union propositions on the ballot in 2005 and all those leftists in Ca. voted it all down. Good luck with the ballot thang for fiscal sanity and expecting the majority Kookifornians to vote the right way this time. Nyet!

[boop]

The unions put MILLIONS of dollars into ads against the Arnold initiatives. How can you compete when your opponents outspend you 100-1?

[BAW]

Last time California voted whether to raise taxes the answer was a resounding NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

[JoSixChip]

"The unions put MILLIONS of dollars into ads against the Arnold initiatives. How can you compete when your opponents outspend you 100-1?"

Education and truth. Unfortunately, both are all but extinct thanks to the nea and msm.

[RichInOC]

If we’re going to do that, why exactly do we need a legislature?

[Mariner]

I fear there are not enough taxpayers in CA to win such an election.

[Kickass Conservative]

If you have to prove you pay CA Income Taxes before you are able to Vote, I'm all for it.

One other thing, that would be after you proved you were a Citizen of course.

[Kickass Conservative]

We don't have a Legislature in CA, we have a room full of teenagers with a no limit American Express Black Card.