If you're serious about spending cuts, you can start by laying off the entire Labor and Workforce Development Agency, which cost 9.5 billion last year to no apparent effect. Then sell their office buildings land for a profit. Then cut education spending to the minimum allowed by Prop 98, by laying off half the administrative staff. Then have an anti-welfare ballot measure next March to give only the minimum amount required by federal law--Calif. gives its own way-too-generous amounts to people who would not qualify in other states. That will save a couple billion more.
But most important to the tax base is repeal of regulations and fees. That's what gets the economy growing so that revenues keep up with expenses.
Even in the event of a terrorist attack, the state government should set its priorities straight, NOT tax devastated citizens who have just lost loved ones or property.