Posted on 05/10/2024 7:41:24 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) announced his proposed $288 billion state budget, which would cut thousands of vacant state jobs and funding to more than 200 state programs in order to close the state’s $27.6 billion deficit.
Newsom revealed his budget proposal on Friday for the 2024-2025 fiscal year, which starts on July 1, citing the importance of accountability and responsibility, according to ABC7 News.
This comes a month after state officials agreed to reduce California’s deficit by $17.3 billion after Newsom announced in January that the state’s deficit was $37.9 billion. The state deficit ended up being closer to $45 billion, which was $7 billion more than Newsom and state officials had estimated.
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You guys figgered this out too?
No, the VOTERS will!
Voters get what they deserve.
Elect big brother big spenders, less money you earned will be there for you to spend
Depends on the facilities being maintained for these unneeded jobs...
>If the jobs are vacant how does that “save” money?<
The real question to ask is how long have these vacant jobs been in the budget and where did the appropriated money for them go?
The same goes for these 200 programs.
EC
I will argue that although the jobs are vacant, the budget requires an allocation to fund them. If the vacant jobs are terminated, allocated funds can be used for other purposes.
The governor wants to move the money from one pocket to another
10K ‘vacant’ jobs means that those people were not needed in the first place.
We had a CFO who came and went whenever she wanted to, and no one knew, from one day to the next, where she was or IF she’d be in.
When she left, she was not replaced.
If the jobs are vacant, there is no money being spent. How does that cut the deficit?
Another Gavin Newsom look nothing up my sleeve scam.
>> You guys figgered this out too?
You seem surprised, Elsie! We’re smarter than we look! Really!
LOL
Just wow. So in State of absurdly high taxes, now you won’t even get the services you pay for - all you’ll hear about is “due to cut-backs”.
The dead voters have to be paid from some account.
California is so replete with BS yet those living there must be numb in refusing to face the reality that lib/lefties are absolutely mentally ill. Oh, well...LOL. More popcorn!
>The governor wants to move the money from one pocket to another<
I suspect this has been going on for quite a while. Whatever happened to the billion dollars sent to China for N95 masks that never showed up?
Tax coffers are a deep pocket piggy bank for those evil enough to get elected.
EC
Wrong,
Those un-issued paychecks, are then spent on overtime to pay x1.5 to existing staff, so they can do the work needed.
State agencies know how to spend every dollar, and then some.
I wish that I were younger than I look!
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