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Calif.:No tax increases, governor promises. Budget woes grow; Davis faces new 'worst-case scenario'
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| April 24, 202
| John Wildermuth,
Posted on 04/24/2002 11:13:21 AM PDT by John Jorsett
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:11 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Sacramento -- Facing the worst budget deficit in the state's history, Gov. Gray Davis said yesterday that he intends to solve the money woes without raising taxes.
Davis, faced with reports California may have a $22 billion state budget shortage, said he is planning a new "worst-case scenario."
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
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To: BornOnTheFourth
"I'm too tired right now to be clever!" No problemo! Get your rest . . . we're gonna need it by November.
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posted on
04/24/2002 12:40:57 PM PDT
by
w_over_w
To: BornOnTheFourth
A Rat has already proposed a per bullet tax. It's not $5 per, but the proposal is already out. Don Perata is the rat that proposed the per bullet tax.
I should have said that he should amend his bill to say a $50 per bullet tax.
To: Frohickey
The irony is the very people who loudly condemned Enron's shady accounting practices are the very ones practicing it themselves. Of course don't look for the liberal media pressitutes to bring this to the public's attention any time soon.
To: John Jorsett
Facing the worst budget deficit in the state's history, Gov. Gray Davis said yesterday that he intends to solve the money woes without raising taxes. A definite setup for a tax increase. I can't wait for the "I worked harder on this problem than any other problem in my life, but there is no other solution except to raise taxes." speech.
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posted on
04/24/2002 3:23:50 PM PDT
by
TheDon
To: John Jorsett
Saw it comming, left Calif in '94, should have left in '74.
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posted on
04/24/2002 3:28:15 PM PDT
by
AMERIKA
To: John Jorsett
And it's so damn simple. Just stop using the taxpayer's money to buy votes.
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posted on
04/24/2002 6:30:29 PM PDT
by
RWCon
To: Reeses
Why elect Simon to save the socialists? A better strategy may be to let the socialists implode. I'm afraid I have to agree on this. Even if Simon is elected, the legislature is overwhelmingly Democratic. Simon would just give them a rallying point. It will take a political implosion to get them out. Some on the order of Proposition 13. One more term of extreme mismanagement might enable changes in the state constitution.
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posted on
04/24/2002 7:47:05 PM PDT
by
glorgau
To: John Jorsett
The governor said that California is in better shape today than it was three years ago and that he has positioned the state for success.
I know we joke about it but the he really is mentally unstable that has to be one of the most absurd statements I have ever heard
To: redsoxallthewayintwothousand2
I don't know. Red Sox All The Way In 2002 is pretty absurd, too.
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04/25/2002 2:51:06 PM PDT
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BFO
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