[I_Love_My_Husband]

Senate President Pro Tem John Burton of San Francisco, Republican Leader Jim Brulte of Rancho Cucamonga and Davis administration officials have informally discussed a complicated sales tax sleight-of-hand to bring Republicans on board for a crucial part of the plan: how to pay back $10.7 billion in borrowing.

Anyone in Brulte's district call his office and tell them NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO.

[McGavin999]

There is a great solution to this. Put everything on the ballot and let the people vote which things they want to keep. The votes should be counted up and those voting to keep something have to agree to pay for it and those who vote against it won't have of dime of their taxes go to the initiative. That way, the democrats who want tax increases can have increases (on themselves only) and those who don't won't have to pay for the excesses of the liberals.

[ErnBatavia]

Those SOB's in Sacramento bloated their bureacracies in the fat times, and now they're ready to "shove it in and break it off" in the taxpayer now that their income has shrunk.

Look elsewhere, por favor!

[Dog Gone]

I have a money-saving idea.

Close UCLA and Berkeley, torch the campuses and spread salt on the soil.

[SteveH]

Outside the Capitol on Thursday, a broad coalition announced it had begun collecting signatures for a ballot initiative that would overhaul California's budget process.

NEA + California prison guards union = "broad coalition"

(Recall Gov. Davis is carried forward by "fringe" leaders.)

Starting a new fiscal year without a state budget is not unusual; it has been late 17 times in the last 26 years. But California's two-thirds vote requirement for legislative passage is rare. Only two other states -- Rhode Island and Arkansas -- have as high a hurdle.

California is one of a distinct minority of states that bans so-called "assault weapons" and practices (discriminatory) discretionary-issue concealed carry. But that kind of comparison never appears in the Mercury News.

The Mercury News is consistent in its outlook: if some government is good, then more government is better. Logic and consistency are secondary.

[Torie]

as many as 100,000 children would have to wait another year to begin kindergarten.

Is that the best the Pubbies could do? I can't support that.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[freekitty]

Keep cutting.

[Grampa Dave]

Ann E. Marimow obviously suffers from left wing journalism where her wet dreams replace reality.