A state may be wasteful. But the information has to be available for the public to view it.
The state claims to have a $60 billion surplus this year. From what I read, according to state law they can’t bank it or spend it, and was planning to send rebates to taxpayers.
California is governed by criminals and inhabited by imbeciles.
That is so clearly a complete crock that the attorney who signed that should be censured.
Bookkeeping programs have been around since at least the mid-90s. Every single one has the ability to search by name. So either the state is lying through its *** or it is operating with 100% paper records. The latter is probably impossible given the staff that would be required to process such payments.
What Yee is really saying is that she would rather spend thousands of $$$ on attorney fees than 5 minutes of staff time to answer a query. That doesn’t seem like a prudent steward of state funds and she should be impeached.
The state of Montana has more than $1,000,000,000 in it’s Coal Trust Tax Fund.
Take THAT California!
Too bad the various proposals to break up California into smaller, more manageable states never go anywhere.
Al Capone raps desk and winks.
Isn’t it the “comptroller”? Does this author have no idea what he’s talking about, or does CA actually name their gov’t positions differently from every other State?
Rope. Lots and lots of rope.
California has no shortage of trees or lamp posts.
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3689409/posts
Official Tapped by Biggest U.S. Public Pension Fund Worked for Predatory Chinese State Investment...
. . .The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, which manages $360 billion and is frequently described as the most influential pension fund investor in the U.S., has asked Ben Meng to take over the top investment job when its current chief departs at the end of the year, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
In the Wall Street Journal’s report, Meng is described as an official of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, China’s foreign-exchange and currency regulator. His job, however, is not writing regulations or supervising Chinese companies’ foreign exchange reporting.
Meng, a former Wall Street bond trader, is a deputy chief investment officer of SAFE. This suggests his job was to invest the assets of SAFE, which is not just a regulator but also one of the world’s biggest sovereign wealth funds. SAFE manages over $3 trillion of China’s foreign reserves.
California is the only state to get away with hiding the billions of dollars it has stolen from the people.
“ Does California still have a representative republic”
No.
It has a fascist government.
Should be rather obvious by now.