CA: Two-thirds budget rule is recipe for pork (Prop 56)

Sac Bee ^ | 1/4/04 | Mark Paul

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California's finances are a wreck. The state's credit rating is in the toilet. The budget approved last summer by the Legislature is probably the most irresponsible in the state's history, using $17.2 billion worth of fund shifts and borrowing to cover lawmakers' failure to balance income and outgo.

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California's finances are a wreck. The state's credit rating is in the toilet. The budget approved last summer by the Legislature is probably the most irresponsible in the state's history, using $17.2 billion worth of fund shifts and borrowing to cover lawmakers' failure to balance income and outgo.

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[Capitalist Eric]

Since we're already on the back side of the Laffer curve, there is nothing to be gained by the passage of Prop. 56... Except, of course, to make it easy for the tax-and-spend liberals to never change their ways...

KILL Prop. 56!!!

[Sharpshot613]

Umm, no. The 2/3 rule is the only thing keeping the really wacky California legislature from totally losing what's left of their minds. Think back to last summer and fall. If Davis and the Democrat legislature only needed 55% instead of 66%, they could easily push through all kinds of tax increases to pay for who knows what. They even whined about instituting this same amendment, which automatically sets my warning alarms off. I personally think that as long as the Dems have to keep on doing without tax increases and the small republican contingent can continue to block all the crappy budgets, then maybe something good can finally come out of Callifornia once we reach true critical mass, probably next July.

Of course, this is all a pipe dream, as the state is rapidly approaching "beyond help".

[Kozy]

Tell me one reason that I would support any idea let alone a proposition from that extremist left wing organization, the League of Woman Voters?

The only way to save California is to decrease taxes, reduce worker's compensation, limit tort settlements, outsource administrative functions like payroll, personnel administration and prisons.

Arnold has to pick this state up, turn it upside down and shake it back into sensibility. Image Mickie Jackson on a baloney holding California over a crowd of on lookers.

Thank God for the 2/3 rule, rather than decreasing we should increase it to 3/4.

Arnold has line item veto. Use it Arnold.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Two-thirds budget rule is recipe for pork (Prop 56)

Uh, yeah, that's an interesting take, but there will be pork no matter what the threshold is and we need to keep the two-thirds and to hell with this Trojan horse known as Prop 56. If they truly want to remove pork, rewrite the prop without killing the two-thirds protection, then we'll talk

Click link to help defeat 56!

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"No a la 56"

[AmericanVictory]

Now, just how will easier tax and spend restore an economy already stifled by burdensome regulations and business costs and bloated state service rolls loaded with illegals?

[goldstategop]

The two-thirds rule allows more "pork barrel" spending? he Democrats have always been able to come up with creative dodge to pump up the government engine. With 55%, they could raise taxes to the sky's the limit. Last year, the Democrats came up with a total of $60 billion in revenue hikes - most of which failed cause the Democrats couldn't get GOP votes to pass them. Under Prop. 56, virtually any measure that picks your wallet can easily pass. While it has a number of good reforms, voters can't pick and choose and the truth is the only, if the sole purpose of the initiative is to make it easy for the majority party to rase your taxes under the rhetoric of "accountability." That's why it deserves the sobriquet, the "blank check" initiative and voters in March should send the message instead to the politicians in Sacramento its time they reduced spending and started addressing our tax burden.

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Here is a link to more Mark Paul Drivel

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I'm duckin' that speculation for the moment...

[buffyt]

We have all the government we can afford, it keeps growing like a cancer that will destroy its host!

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We have all the government we can afford

And sadly, much more than we "need".