TAKE A NOTE OF SPENDING PROPOSALS:
Total spending nevertheless goes up to $91.4 billion in fiscal year 2013 from $86.5 billion in 2012, a 6% increase. Spending on K-12 education alone rises beyond constitutional requirements to $38.5 billion from $34 billion, a 13% increase.
Budget Solution:
No raises for union workers.
Union workers go on strike.
No payroll for striking workers.
Leave them on strike forever.
Budget balanced.
Mr. Brown and the state legislature repeatedly nibble around the edges of the budget.
They want to increase spending by 7% next year.
Increase taxes that’s the ticket. /s
They can only kick this can so far down the road. At some point, there will be a reckoning and even Brown and the legislature will have to do some heavy lifting. They can't print their own money, they won't get money from D.C., states can't declare bankruptcy, and if they keep up the spending, borrowing money is going to get a lot more expensive.
What did Brown promise when he was campaigning? This?
His party holds the balance of power in the California legislature by a wide margin, does it not?
The Dems are not serious about cutting spending. Brown is crying about the budget while pushing a multi-billion dollar bullet train that no one wants.
And where is that list of the 500+ CA government agencies? Many of them exist solely to provide do-nothing patronage jobs for term-limited-out pols.
When they kill the train and start eliminating useless agencies and boards, then maybe I’ll believe they are serious. Until then, it’s all utter BS.
this spending cannot be sustained. I see houses everywhere for sale and people are getting the hellout of this state. I guess this is the plan on how they plan on turning Cali over to Mexico. One of my dear neighbor friends, are moving, he is an attorney, she is a consultant. both of them have had cancer and survived, now he is having a lot of clients bankrupt and go to collections not paying him his fees and they are taking a HUGE loss on their income and are the heck outta here. Georgia is looking better these days they have purchased a new home twice the size for half the price.