Posted on 12/30/2010 2:03:49 PM PST by La Enchiladita
SACRAMENTO -- Gov.-elect Jerry Brown is getting ready to tell Californians the news they don't want to hear: Taxes need to be raised, services cut and belts tightened.
His budget plan includes deep cuts to state services, including university systems and welfare programs, with a request that voters extend temporary tax hikes on vehicles, income and sales that are set to expire next year.
The blueprint Brown will unveil when he takes office early next month also is expected to take aim at several tax breaks and subsidies that have been fiercely guarded by the business lobby in Sacramento, according to people involved in budget discussions with the incoming administration.
Among the breaks are multi-billion-dollar incentives for redevelopment projects and hundreds of millions of dollars of "enterprise zone" credits meant to encourage investment in blighted neighborhoods.
Also targeted is a recent change to state business tax formulas that has saved corporate California roughly $1 billion.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
Someone send Moonbeam a copy of the Cliffs Notes for Atlas Shrugged.
At least he hasn't got around to loading the dark parts into his teleprompter like 0bambi.
Here lies the problem the vast majority of democrat voters do not pay the majority of these taxes. They are suckers off the system.
Actually I did read that, I just don’t think it means what you think it means I guess.
How many $250,000 - $400,000 Board of Regents jobs does California need ?
There’s a news story out today that these idiots want pay raises. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!!!
Good luck, moonbeam. We can use the extra jobs in Georgia.
What do public service employees give up?
Did you hear the one about organ donations? (California)
The John and Ken show was touching on it. Businesses will have to pay for their organ donor employee’s costs, when they decide to donate. In addition the employer will have to provide thirty paid days off for the person to recuperate before returning to work.
I don’t know all the details yet, but here’s another attempt to destroy jobs in the middle of the worst economy in 80 years.
If you were writing a science fiction book, these plots would be tossed out for being too wigged out to ever become reality. In two days, in our state, this does.
Folks may want to take a peek at post 67. Amazing...
Folks may want to take a peek at post 67. Amazing...
I remember him hitting the campuses around the state saying the complete opposite to cheering crowd. Ha Ha, Suckers.
Just shut the CA state government down for two years. All non essential services should be shut down.
Yes, belts need to be tightened — in Sacramento. Thanks La Enchiladita.
defended? or defunded? LOL
Sadly however, I would be willing to bet that nearly every state in the U.S. has a similar list....including my state of MN with the corrupt unions & DFL paving the way.
And can anyone imagine what the list of FEDERAL agencies would look like? I wager to say that one could multiply the CA list below by 50 states and it may come close to equaling the socialist Fed gubmint list of stifling agencies.
They elected him, and they expect a payoff.
May California go bankrupt! Let the union pensioners subsist on Social Security!
Will Brown and the scumbags be able to buy the small handful of Republican votes they’ll need to raise taxes? that is the big question.
Meanwhile, THANK GOD the GOP controls the House. It is inconceivable to me that the GOP-controlled House would ever agree to flush money from taxpayers of the other 49 states down the California toilet.
As a California resident, I will relish voting against every Tax Increase that Moonbeam proposes. When Arnold tried to get his reforms through when he first took office, the Teacher Unions borrowed $50 Million to fight them.
This time around, those same Unions will spend money trying to convince the lemmings that they need to “sacrifice” to save the State because we can’t cut anything without harming the children.
AI live here and I laugh at the fools that surround me.
Having Moonbeam as Governor again, will only guarantee a fast track to ruin and bankruptcy. But we all know that the Fed will bail them out with printed paper to save face and make Marxism look so good.
This goes beyond right or wrong. It is Evil, pure and simple, from a State that started this trend decades ago.
Yeah, I agree with you. deep cuts means something to me.
Moonbeam was a minimalist when he was gov here in Calif. Unlike President Narcissus, he never lavished benefits on himself, preferring to drive an old plymouth fury (if I recall correctly) and slept on a mattress in the gov’s mansion.
He might surprise us with a little fiscal conservatism. Not as much as a tea partier, but I’m kind of surprised already by him (not that I would ever vote for him).
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