A temporary tax?.......
In California?.......
Posted on 01/05/2012 4:27:13 PM PST by SmithL
Gov. Jerry Brown proposed Thursday slashing nearly $1.4 billion in welfare and child care aid for the poor while holding voters liable for $5 billion in education funding with a November tax measure.
The Democratic governor announced his January budget plan this afternoon after his proposal was inadvertently leaked on his Department of Finance website.
He estimates the state faces a $9.2 billion general fund deficit through June 2013, which he proposes to bridge with mostly cuts and taxes. Brown will ask voters to pass a $6.9 billion ballot measure in November that raises taxes on sales and income starting with single filers earning $250,000 a year. The taxes would last through 2016.
"With the tax program, we will eliminate the budget deficit finally, after years of kicking the can down the road," Brown said.
With or without the taxes, Brown is calling for a base level of $4.2 billion in cuts, including the $946 million to welfare-to-work and $446 million to subsidized child care. He also would save $842 million in Medi-Cal by moving recipients into managed care plans.
The welfare cut would save money largely by cutting welfare for parents who don't meet work requirements after 24 months, compared to 48 months now.
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How else would he bridge the gap, go to Vegas and put it all on red?
A temporary tax?.......
In California?.......
>>He estimates the state faces a $9.2 billion general fund deficit through June 2013, which he proposes to bridge with mostly cuts and taxes. <<
And stampeding business and wage earners like me out of the state. That has worked really well!
Keep subsidizing sloth, illegal aliens and asking the hard workers to pay for it all and you, too, can have a liberal paradise.
Bullsh*t. The tax increases will be set in stone while some liberal judge will throw the cuts out.
The Democrat-dominated state legislature can’t very well rail at Governor Moonbean, now can they? After all, he isn’t the Governator, whom they LOVED to hate, and could use their best riposte and rhetoric bouncing it off Ahnold.
California has become essentially a Third World country in so many aspects. It is a wonder that ANYTHING functions out there any more.
If they grew bananas there, we could call them a banana republic. Certainly a lot of other fruits running around that state.
California public education = Fail. It is the highest cost per capita in the country. 50% of seniors cannot read and write, nor know who George Washington was. Cut away. Then take out the machette.
Proposed...right there in the first sentence.
They never cut money from welfare. I guess in November we will see how his tax hike goes.
5 Billion dollar measure for Education ..uhh..
No.
Bet he didnt touch the illegal aliens..
What a heartless piece of crud Brown is.
Analyst: Dream Act more expensive than estimates
DNC vote buy tactic du jour.
In fact Jerry Brown just increased spending on illegals with his signing the dream act in Nov!
I may be wrong, but I think Cali is about the only state that doesn’t have any time limits on welfare or a welfare-to-work policy.
thank you...
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