Posted on 03/10/2011 8:07:21 AM PST by SmithL
It's Gov. Jerry Brown's original deadline day, and state leaders have failed to reach a budget deal. A splinter group of five Senate Republicans is negotiating with the Democratic governor. It remains to be seen whether they can strike a compromise.
What's next?
• Brown and GOP lawmakers continue to negotiate big-picture changes to state government, including budgeting, worker pensions and environmental regulations. The governor says he needs a two-thirds vote of the Legislature, including at least two Republicans in each house, to place tax extensions on the ballot, a key part of his solution to the state's $26.6 billion deficit.
• Missing today's deadline makes it unlikely the state will hold a special election on the tax extensions June 7. Each week that passes means pushing the balloting later into June.
• The California Republican Party will hold its spring convention in Sacramento March 18-20. The governor has suggested that GOP lawmakers are wary of casting a vote on the tax extensions ahead of the gathering.
• Absent the tax vote, current tax rates on sales and vehicles will fall on July 1, the start of the new fiscal year.
• Democrats could abandon a special election altogether and seek a legislative compromise. But they would have to find a way to replace $11.2 billion in tax solutions, and Brown has vowed to fill that gap with program cuts rather than gimmicks.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
The GOP should all go to Hawaii. Lay on the beach at Duke’s and laugh at the media.
That's because any GOP lawmakers in our Once-Golden State who vote FOR tax extensions will become FORMER GOP lawmakers at our earliest electoral convenience.
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Time to ban public sector unions!
Time to ban public sector unions!Like that's going to happen in the Golden State. Moonbeam was the governor who authorized public service unions, and they're the ones who put him back in office. He'll dance with the one who brung him.
And the Legislature is overwhelmingly democrat controlled, and each of them are bought and paid for by a union.
As a life long California resident I am enjoying the show! The Dems have created an entitlement constituency here that they now must decide who they’re going to screw when they ultimately must make cuts instead of counting on higher taxes. The only danger is if some idiot Republicans decide to stand with him on putting the issue of higher or extension of current higher taxes on the ballot because then the have-nots will outvote the haves and responsible tax-paying citizens will be left to pay for the irresponsible non-tax paying citizens.
Bump to that!
I'll believe it when I see it.
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