---But while Schwarzenegger has made some incremental progress on the deficit, he has been unable to close the gap - and, in fact, exacerbated the problem himself by reinstating a $4 billion-a-year cut in car taxes that the state could not, and cannot, afford.---
The car tax was the biggest source of fuel for the rebellion aganst Davis. Arnold couldn't not cut the car tax.
The schools are an absolute black hole for spending and the center of lefty power in California politics. In terms of influence the schools fill the same role as churches used to.
NObody mentions the ILLEGAL factor in the school problem or in the deficit itself. Solve that problem first & the rest will work itself out.