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CALIFORNIA: Budget package stalls one vote shy
Sacramento Bee ^ | 2/15/9 | Kevin Yamamura, Steve Wiegand and Jim Sanders

Posted on 02/15/2009 8:35:48 AM PST by SmithL

California's massive $40 billion-plus budget plan stalled in the Legislature early Sunday morning as Senate Republicans balked at a massive proposal containing $14.3 billion in new taxes.

After legislative leaders negotiated a tentative deal last week, the Senate wound up one vote shy of passing the budget plan, surprising those who believed Senate Republican Leader Dave Cogdill had locked up enough votes in his caucus.

Sen. Dave Cox, R-Fair Oaks, was widely believed to be the 27th Senate vote to pass the budget, but he stated early Sunday, "I'm not a prospect for voting for this budget." That sent Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger scrambling to negotiate with other Senate Republicans in search of one final vote.

Both legislative houses were pondering 27 hastily drafted bills that cover state budgets for two fiscal years: the current one that ends June 30 and the next one that begins July 1.

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: budget; calbudget; davecox; goldenstate; policestate; yourtaxdollarsatwork
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Senate President Pro Tem, Darrell Steinberg sits on the floor while working to get one Republican vote needed to pass the budget early Sunday morning.
1 posted on 02/15/2009 8:35:48 AM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL

I take this to be good news. Am I correct?


2 posted on 02/15/2009 8:36:57 AM PST by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb

Nothing is good news in Cal until we stop spending $12 billion a year on services for illegals.


3 posted on 02/15/2009 8:38:36 AM PST by nufsed
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To: nufsed

bingo...and that has never been addressed, by this gov or the previous few.


4 posted on 02/15/2009 8:41:47 AM PST by mrs tiggywinkle
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To: abb

As a Californian, this is making my day this morning. I can’t believe being taxed in 5 new ways. . .including being taxed if you owe the state taxes? What does that mean? So people like me who change withholding to not get “refunds” are punished?

Maybe they realize people are changing withholding to avoid refunds since the refunds are now “IOUs.”

Good thing I don’t buy new cars (and never will); 2 of the 5 new taxes directly hurt people who buy new cars.


5 posted on 02/15/2009 8:43:24 AM PST by olivia3boys
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To: nufsed
Yep, the Golden State refuses to address the elephant in the room.

Funny thing is, all CA has to do is sell off-shore oil and gas leases to the energy companies and they'd be instantly halfway out of the hole.

6 posted on 02/15/2009 8:44:02 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (The Libertarian and Constitution Parties should merge into one)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

If we did that and cut the illegal’s services, we’d be building roads,water projects, and cutting taxes. Open up that golden gate!


7 posted on 02/15/2009 8:45:30 AM PST by nufsed
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To: SmithL

Crooked politicians here in PA use the July 4th weekend to sneak through pay raises, tax increases etc.

So this long holiday weekend gives the CA gangsters a chance to do things hoping people aren’t paying attention.


8 posted on 02/15/2009 8:46:05 AM PST by Nextrush (Sarah Palin is the new Ronald Reagan.)
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To: SmithL

This budget bill raises every tax imaginable but doesn’t require the layoff of a single state employee. Once again the private sector is asked to make all the sacrifices. What a surprise.


9 posted on 02/15/2009 8:46:05 AM PST by blue state conservative
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To: SmithL
For once I don't feel betrayed.

I wonder how long that will last?

10 posted on 02/15/2009 8:46:06 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser, fashionable fascsim one ruse at a time.)
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To: nufsed

Nothing is good news in Cal until we stop spending $12 billion a year on services for illegals.
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And it will NEVER stop until the radical liberal vote-mongers in the state legislature are removed from office and control. In three decades they have destroyed what was California, the leading model state in America, and turned it into Taxifornia. Forty BILLION bucks in debt and yes, spending over TEN BILLION PER YEAR to fund ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. Just take a drive through Los Angeles nowadays. We residents of Taxifornia, remember the times when the state government, run by RESPONSIBLE CONSERVATIVES, was fighting over how to RETURN over three billion in excess taxation to the taxpaying citizens. When our schools were the BEST in the nation. When our demographics were acceptable and did not have to fear gangs in and around major cities.

Anything the liberals touch turns to $%^&. California has been no exception. And now they want us to pay for THEIR MALFEASANCE, CORRUPTION AND LAWBREAKING.


11 posted on 02/15/2009 8:47:52 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: olivia3boys

Olivia,

I think the income tax proposal is to take your annual income tax bill and multiply it by 1.05 or 1.025, depending on whether the state gets enough federal funding in Porkulus. It has nothing to do with how much you owe when you file taxes.


12 posted on 02/15/2009 8:48:33 AM PST by thesharkboy (<-- Looking for the silver lining in every cloud, since 1998)
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To: SmithL

Apparently that RINO idiot Arnold thinks a billion dollars in new taxes automatically equals a billion dollars in increased revenues. Then he’ll sit back slack jawed as revenues crash, businesses fail and working people flee the state.


13 posted on 02/15/2009 8:49:14 AM PST by Mojave (Barack Obama is a joke)
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To: SmithL
OK, let's face facts. First off, Arnold was never Conservative. He was just better than Bustemante. Secondly, this state has been in complete control of the Rats since motor-voter went into effect in the latter 90’s. The ONE thing that we could do to change this is to enact a law that would require ID at the polling places. This, of course, will never happen as long as the Rats have a stranglehold on the State offices. Their voter base is largely illegals and as long as the Rats keep giving our money to them the Rats will remain in power.
14 posted on 02/15/2009 8:52:29 AM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: originalbuckeye
He was just better than Bustemante.

Bzzzzt. Wrong.

15 posted on 02/15/2009 8:53:44 AM PST by Mojave (Barack Obama is a joke)
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To: SmithL

Good for the California GOP but they will eventually get rolled.

The real power in this State is the public employee unions; not the legislature or governor.


16 posted on 02/15/2009 8:56:11 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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To: SmithL
Well whaddya know. California pubbies get spine!

Here's a message for my representatives: cut, cut, cut.

17 posted on 02/15/2009 8:56:25 AM PST by GVnana
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To: Mojave
Bustemante would have been better? I know that you probably supported McClintock but his recent tight Congressional race showed that he couldn't have won a statewide race. A vote for McClintock would have been a vote for Bustemante. Go ahead, have at me.
18 posted on 02/15/2009 8:57:08 AM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: Mojave
He was just better than Bustemante. Bzzzzt. Wrong.

No. Schwarzenegger really was better than Bustamante.

19 posted on 02/15/2009 8:58:27 AM PST by GVnana
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To: EagleUSA
When I moved to California back in the 1970’s, its education system was the model for the country. The state universities and community colleges were especially outstanding.

Now it's all gone to hell. We've been overrun by illegal aliens and they're still coming here in droves as Mexico continues to collapse. The voters passed Proposition 187 years ago to deny them benefits, but a liberal judge stopped it, and nothing more has been heard about it since.

I'm looking to spend my retirement years someplace else, like Idaho or Oklahoma.

20 posted on 02/15/2009 9:00:51 AM PST by Deo volente (High Noon, January 20, 2009: Our long national nightmare begins.)
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