[Joe Hadenuf]

Bring on the total collapse. Looking forward to it.....

[expatpat]

The crisis, and the possibility of a huge property tax refund, could also trigger a new look at an old idea: reconfiguring Proposition 13, either to loosen its limits or create a differential between residential and commercial property. For many years, liberals have advocated removing some of the tax limits from commercial property while preserving them for homes.

Looks like Californistan will be blowin' in the wind. "Oh, when will they ever learn?"

[Dog Gone]

If the state doesn't collect money in property taxes because of Prop 13, it will find a different way to do it. The only question is how.

How about a special $100 per month surcharge on water bills? How about raising state gasoline tax another 50 cents a gallon?

It doesn't matter, because one way or the other, it's coming.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[snopercod]

The recent flurry of articles claiming surprise at the budget deficit make me sick. The facts were clear almost two years ago that this was going to happen, and a number of newspapers published articles on the impending doom.

I put together a list of some of these articles beginning with [this post].

But not the SacBee. When the battle was being joined, they were at the local bistro sipping white wine and snacking on Brie.

These "shocked" newspapers remind me of Robert Strange McNamara admitting 30 years too late that he screwed up in Viet Nam. Simply disgusting...

[Lancey Howard]

Great news!
This decision by the judge took some guts.