Posted on 11/22/2008 11:39:43 AM PST by NormsRevenge
Not even fiscal crisis trumps partisan politics in California, where lawmakers remained sharply divided on a budget rescue plan Friday with time running out in this year's session.
With California facing a projected two-year, $27.8 billion budget shortfall, Democrats and Republicans continued to fight over whether tax increases would make things better or worse.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders met Friday and were expected to discuss a tripling of the state's vehicle license tax in return for about $4 billion in cuts this budget year and placement of a rigid spending cap on a future ballot.
When the session ended two hours later, the deadlock continued. Participants were tight-lipped about details, but neither Democrats nor Republicans were optimistic that a deal was imminent – and both faced flak from party interests.
"There certainly isn't any agreement," Senate Republican leader Dave Cogdill said.
The two-year legislative session officially ends at midnight Nov. 30, but leaders are demanding that any action be taken before Thanksgiving.
The marriage of car tax with spending cap is an alternative for portions of a much wider-ranging rescue plan in which Schwarzenegger has proposed a temporary 1.5-cent sales tax increase, new levies on some services and activities, and deep cuts in education and social services.
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How about the Democrats that are controlled by the Unions and refuse to make any concessions. As taxpayers, we are corporate board members of all state employees and it's time we made the tough choices to live within our means.
The R word (recall or revolt, take your pick) will become more and more prominent if the idiots that can’t count well much less spend in a sane manner go ahead with these latest offerings.
also, prepare to pay a tax on almost everything, vet bills, drinks, you name it..
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
That’s wonderful. Arnold proposes that they should cut the budget by 1/7 of the expected deficit (which will probably be even larger, as economic losses multiply), and they can’t even agree on that.
What about the other 6/7 of the shortfall? What ever happened to BALANCING the budget?
It’s a real question. Who has been stupider since Arnold got into office? Arnold or the Democrats? If anything, Arnold has been leading the way. If you borrow and spend like a drunken sailor in prosperous times, what happens when the predicatable recession—or depression—hits?
I guess Arnold figured like all the rest of them that it would happen to his successor, so it wasn’t his problem.
Thank you again, Assemblyman Villines, for leading the resistance against the taxes. Glad to have you as my rep, as long as you keep doing that.
Great....these folks can't get their act together and Karen Bass (D)Assembly District 47 is demanding a bailout from the feds.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136591/posts
Too many pressure groups have their finger in the pie. Therefore, government will simply have to collapse of its own weight.
Drunken sailors are, well, drunk. Nothing wrong with that, after a hard day at the war.
So much for recover, reform, and rebuild.
I vote for rebellion, revolt, and recall.
Arnold is a complete F - up as governor. In retrospect, I never would have voted to recall Davis as governor. This guy is pure unadulterated crap. He stands for nothing.
aRnie led by example from the gitgo.
He borrowed to spare the dems and the reckoning re: the state budget... and never looked back, then he went out and borrowed some more.. all the while pushing his Global Warming propaganda.
Meanwhile, the icebergs have only gotten larger.
LOL!
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