[goldstategop]

Agreed. The spending cap will evaporate and the tax increases will be permanent. If the CAGOP wants to go the way of the Whigs all it has to do is vote for a phony budget deal that doesn't put California government on a diet and actually shrink it! A party that is not committed to standing up for its principles deserves to be political roadkill.

"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

[Oldexpat]

The only possible way to cut the CA budget is to cut out the freebies for illegals. Something that Rats will never do because hispanic votes are essential to the Rat power base. The GOP needs to stand up to the point that the state goes formally broke..then maybe..maybe..enough voters will abandon the Rats to give the GOP the votes to force the illegals out via job sanctions etc.
Tax increases will increase the corp and citizen tax refugees..