Next year's woes already on horizon (CA Budget)

Sacramento Bee ^ | 7/15/2002 | John Hill

[randita]

From the beginning, Democrats said that this year's state budget would have to rely on borrowing and other quick fixes to avoid a huge blow to state operations.

But the $99 billion budget that is now before the Assembly relies more on what some call "smoke and mirrors" than the version Gov. Gray Davis proposed in May.

[randita]

How long before they dip into the state worker's pension fund?

[Free the USA]

Index Bump

[goldstategop]

They'll steal money if they have to in order to create the impression no one will be inconvenienced. People have a low opinion of the State Legislature.

[Free the USA]

California: Field Poll: Voters have sunnier view of Legislature

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for getting this on the list!

Randita thanks for posting this !

When will the people wake up that big tax increases are coming!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

But she doesn't mention taxes as the solution. Instead, she says the state will have to ask hard questions about whether it can continue some statutory duties. It will have to revisit the division of responsibilities between levels of government.

Here it comes , the state is going to suspend payment to many local government units.

Wilson did this in the early 90's.

[TaZ]

Yep, good ol' Kalifornia.

My family moved there in the 1880s & I left in the 1990s.

Currently I live in NYC, which is better and worse in its own ways, but I'm planning to leave for Arizona or New Mexico in the near future.

It's really sad what has happened to Kalifornia, once know as the "Golden State", now known as the "Third World State".

Goodbye Kalifornia and good riddance.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

New Mexico can be a bit of a strange place!

[ChasingFletch]

They could start by kicking out all those illegals! ...or is it uninvited?

[Carry_Okie]

"It would be completely disruptive to deal with $23 billion in one year,"

Disruptive of what, pray tell.

More landgrabs?

[Carry_Okie]

Goodbye Kalifornia and good riddance.

Write it off and you get to go down with it. In case you hadn't already noticed, the disease will metastacize and follow you.

[TaZ]

So what do you suggest?

As far as I can see, it is beyond reformation.

[snopercod]

More landgrabs?

That's the way it works in North Carolina. Last year the state spent millions buying up a bunch of private property for parks. This year they raised taxes on the poor (sales tax) because they ran out of money.

[Carry_Okie]

That's too open-ended a question for this forum, because what I propose is on over a half dozen fronts, all of which have short and long-term implications. You can find out how I would privatize environmental management and other regulatory functions here. Otherwise, some other time.