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Posted on 08/10/2011 9:38:44 AM PDT by SmithL
Jerry Brown was specifically nonspecific when asking voters last year to return him to the governorship – especially when it came to the state's chronic budget deficit.
Although pledging to balance the budget without gimmicks, Brown refused to say whether he'd raise taxes, which he knew would alienate many voters.
Nevertheless, Brown's first budget was keyed to continuing some temporary taxes that were on the verge of expiring.
"For 10 years," Brown told reporters, "we've had budget gimmicks and tricks that pushed us deep into debt. We must now return California to fiscal responsibility and get our state on the road to economic recovery and job growth."
Ultimately, the taxes – roughly $10 billion a year – didn't fly because he couldn't get a few Republicans to agree to place them before voters without conditions that Democrats would not accept. So Brown and Democrats then developed and enacted an alternative budget that relied, instead, on a new assumption that the state would receive $4 billion in extra revenue from an improving economy.
Scarcely a month later, that $4 billion windfall is looking more and more like the sort of time-buying gimmick that Brown promised to shun. In fact, revenues in July, the first month of the fiscal year, ran 10 percent below expectations.
The budget is loaded with shaky assumptions. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Now, there's a real surprise.
brown is a gimmick.
he wouldn’t be gov for the 3rd time if not for the
crying mexican maid.
Assumptions of a dramatically-improving economy, eh!?
Not in this Obama-nation.
Tappity tap tap tap “They call this ‘The Sacramento Slide’” tappity tap tap “This is my patented Jerry Brown Jerkoff. Not many tap dancers can do it.” Tappity tap tap tap. “Sorry! Can’t hear you over these taps!” Tappity tap tap.
Thanks, Gloria.
Meg might have been our Scott Walker.
Face it, California is owned and operated by the government unions.
Republicans fault for not wasting taxpayer's dollars and letting temporary tax increases expire.
/s
Gov Moonbeam is like the brand new salesperson who lucks into making $1,500 his first week and then happily pulls out his calculator and punches in 1,500 X 50.
Note to horse owners in California:
When you have had enough of the smoke & mirrors that govern your state, I would like to discuss a turn-key property with you. I am selling due to health issues with family. I’m fine.....
It is in N Nevada:
NO personal income taxes.
NO corp income taxes.
Low property taxes-under $1200 this year.
Just paid $175 a ton for hay- delivered & stacked. About $8.90/bale.
Clean air. NO smog. Sometimes smoke from Calif Forestry “Controlled Burns”.
Cool nights: 4200’ elevation.
Sunny days.
Separate pens/paddocks for 12 horses.
3 entrances.
Fenced & Cross Fenced w/ electric.
Well: NO water bill from DWP or PG & E. Just power to pump.
Can ride right out of your own gate without trailering.
Lake 5 miles away==can ride to it.
Historic trails nearby: Pony Express Trail, etc.
Virginia City 30 miles away.
5.58 acres. Room for a barn if you wish one.
maybe.
she’s best buds with romney, and allowed rombot’s minions to use her campaign offices in preparation for 2012.
if she’d won, rombot would have advanced in california.
California needs to be declared a state in insurrection and stripped of its federal franchise - no senators or US House representatives until the state proves it can elect a responsible state government.
Appoint a military governor with a division of investigators and armed agents with the power to remove the various fascists and communists embedded into the state bureaucracy.
Let’s call it Reconstruction.
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