[The Raven]

He cut medial outlays by 15%?? He's just reducing the payments to the hospitals and docs by 15%. In other wors, he's not going to pay the complete bill.

[norton]

Note Mr Davis' recent re-election...
Note to California:
Eventually you do get what you deserve.

[TheSpottedOwl]

HIGHER FEES AND TAXES

Gov. Gray Davis proposed raising taxes and fees $8.3 billion on Friday, to pay for state services. Here are some of the highlights:

-- An increase in the sales tax rate by one percentage point (a penny on each dollar).

-- Adding a 10 and an 11 percent personal income tax rate for high income earners, up from 9.3 percent.

-- Increasing the tax on cigarettes by $1.10 a pack.

-- Unspecified fee increases at the University of California and the California State University system to cover part of $373 million and $326 million in cuts, respectively.

-- An increase in the cost for identification cards issued by the Department of Motor Vehicle from $6 to $20. Cards will be free for seniors.

-- Increasing vehicle registration fees by $3.

-- An increase in the cost of a noncommercial driver's licenses from $12 to $24 for a five-year license.

-- A quarter-of-a-cent "public safety surcharge" on all phone calls.

-- A new court security fee of $20 per court filing.

-- Raising trial motion fees from $23 to $33.

-- Increasing community college fees from $11 per unit to $24 per unit.

-- A parent co-pay for services provided to minors living at home and receiving services from regional Department of Developmental Services centers. The fee will be on a sliding scale and apply only to families earning more than 200 percent of the federal poverty level.


Holy cow, Davis ain't messing around. He's sticking it to everybody. Of course he's going to stick it to the smokers, that's a given. The higher fees for college makes me really sick, but since there aren't any jobs for you when you do graduate...why bother going in the first place?

The last one has me stumped. Can anyone translate it for me?

[NeoCaveman]

Governor would reduce state spending to pre-'99 level

I wish governor Taft of Ohio would cut spending to pre-'99 levels

[Koblenz]

Some 1,900 state employee positions would be eliminated, and the state's advisory boards and commissions are ordered to cut their meetings to one per year.

Only 1900? Here in Connecticut, the governor just eliminated 2,800 jobs. And CT is a lot smaller than CA! Our highest income tax bracket is 4.5%, and the state is going to add a new bracket of 5.5% for incomes over $1 million. That isn't good, of course, but it's a lot better than California. I think Colorado has some law that says state budgets couldn't grow faster than the cumulative effects of inflation and population growth, so during the dotcom boom, they didn't add all these silly programs like most other states.

[Bill Davis FR]

a bump for the budget-cutting governor...

[geedee]

[Drango]

Davis erases another 24 percent of the problem by transferring programs to counties

Oh OK that solves it. Davis gives smoke and mirrors a bad name.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[Centurion2000]

-- Adding a 10 and an 11 percent personal income tax rate for high income earners, up from 9.3 percent.

So he's going to raid the federal tax coffers and take it for California's use. Lovely.

I hope that state implodes