Still, efforts are under way to put an initiative on the ballot next year that would strip public employees of their bargaining rights. And, two labor experts say, events in Wisconsin could embolden both sides of the aisle in California to make deeper cuts in state employee compensation." [end excerpt]
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And one of their activist judges will immediately call it unconstitutional.
“LOS ANGELES — Members of Los Angeles County labor unions are on their way to Wisconsin to support government workers there who are battling to keep collective bargaining rights.
City News Service says about 160 members of the county Federation of Labor left Los Angeles on Wednesday morning. They’ll join tens of thousands of protesters outside the Wisconsin state Capitol.”
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/02/23/3424335/la-county-unionists-joining-wisconsin.html
Chicago Federation of Labor workers show solidarity in Wisconsin
The state is dead broke.
It was insolvent when they started issuing IOUs.
The budget can't be fixed with further tax increases. Business is already fleeing the state reducing the tax base.
The idiots are trying to defy gravity and will find out the hard way it can't be done while still on earth.
The only question is if the governing class is going to decide what gets cut or a bankruptcy judge.
At least that's my 2 cents...
Another solution: If the public employee union members won’t contribute enough to make the pensions and health benefit promises self sufficient, then make those pensions and benefits subject to a special surtax that balances the deficiency. Say a 50% tax on any benefit payouts exceeding $40K/yr. They can’t claim a tax targeting them is unconstitutional when they’ve targeted everybody else over the years.