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CA: Two-thirds budget rule is recipe for pork (Prop 56)
Sac Bee ^ | 1/4/04 | Mark Paul

Posted on 01/04/2004 11:38:20 AM PST by NormsRevenge

Edited on 04/12/2004 6:02:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

California's finances are a wreck. The state's credit rating is in the toilet. The budget approved last summer by the Legislature is probably the most irresponsible in the state's history, using $17.2 billion worth of fund shifts and borrowing to cover lawmakers' failure to balance income and outgo.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: budgetrule; calgov2002; pork; prop56; recipe; twothirds

1 posted on 01/04/2004 11:38:24 AM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: *calgov2002
California's finances are a wreck. The state's credit rating is in the toilet. The budget approved last summer by the Legislature is probably the most irresponsible in the state's history, using $17.2 billion worth of fund shifts and borrowing to cover lawmakers' failure to balance income and outgo.


And so it begins, the last best chance to restore the California Republic is at hand.

All we need now is a true spirit of reform in the hearts and minds of our elected officals and a determination to see that it is done well and soon.

2 posted on 01/04/2004 11:42:06 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi Mac ....... Become a Monthly at FR... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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3 posted on 01/04/2004 11:42:26 AM PST by Support Free Republic (Hi Mom! Hi Dad!)
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To: NormsRevenge
Since we're already on the back side of the Laffer curve, there is nothing to be gained by the passage of Prop. 56... Except, of course, to make it easy for the tax-and-spend liberals to never change their ways...

KILL Prop. 56!!!


4 posted on 01/04/2004 12:00:58 PM PST by Capitalist Eric (Noise proves nothing. Often the hen who merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Umm, no. The 2/3 rule is the only thing keeping the really wacky California legislature from totally losing what's left of their minds. Think back to last summer and fall. If Davis and the Democrat legislature only needed 55% instead of 66%, they could easily push through all kinds of tax increases to pay for who knows what. They even whined about instituting this same amendment, which automatically sets my warning alarms off. I personally think that as long as the Dems have to keep on doing without tax increases and the small republican contingent can continue to block all the crappy budgets, then maybe something good can finally come out of Callifornia once we reach true critical mass, probably next July.

Of course, this is all a pipe dream, as the state is rapidly approaching "beyond help".
5 posted on 01/04/2004 12:16:21 PM PST by Sharpshot613
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To: Capitalist Eric
Tell me one reason that I would support any idea let alone a proposition from that extremist left wing organization, the League of Woman Voters?

The only way to save California is to decrease taxes, reduce worker's compensation, limit tort settlements, outsource administrative functions like payroll, personnel administration and prisons.

Arnold has to pick this state up, turn it upside down and shake it back into sensibility. Image Mickie Jackson on a baloney holding California over a crowd of on lookers.

Thank God for the 2/3 rule, rather than decreasing we should increase it to 3/4.

Arnold has line item veto. Use it Arnold.
6 posted on 01/04/2004 12:16:35 PM PST by Kozy (Calling Al Gore)
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To: NormsRevenge
Uh, yeah, that's an interesting take, but there will be pork no matter what the threshold is and we need to keep the two-thirds and to hell with this Trojan horse known as Prop 56. If they truly want to remove pork, rewrite the prop without killing the two-thirds protection, then we'll talk


Click link to help defeat 56!


"No a la 56"

7 posted on 01/04/2004 1:56:22 PM PST by CounterCounterCulture (Once again, Leon can't do everything)
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To: NormsRevenge
Now, just how will easier tax and spend restore an economy already stifled by burdensome regulations and business costs and bloated state service rolls loaded with illegals?
8 posted on 01/04/2004 4:29:57 PM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
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To: NormsRevenge
The two-thirds rule allows more "pork barrel" spending? he Democrats have always been able to come up with creative dodge to pump up the government engine. With 55%, they could raise taxes to the sky's the limit. Last year, the Democrats came up with a total of $60 billion in revenue hikes - most of which failed cause the Democrats couldn't get GOP votes to pass them. Under Prop. 56, virtually any measure that picks your wallet can easily pass. While it has a number of good reforms, voters can't pick and choose and the truth is the only, if the sole purpose of the initiative is to make it easy for the majority party to rase your taxes under the rhetoric of "accountability." That's why it deserves the sobriquet, the "blank check" initiative and voters in March should send the message instead to the politicians in Sacramento its time they reduced spending and started addressing our tax burden.
9 posted on 01/04/2004 6:25:23 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: NormsRevenge
Here is a link to more Mark Paul Drivel
10 posted on 01/05/2004 8:20:40 PM PST by tubebender (Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see...)
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11 posted on 01/05/2004 8:29:04 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi Mac ....... Become a Monthly at FR... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: NormsRevenge
So you think he's the guy in the AFLAC suit...
12 posted on 01/05/2004 8:39:17 PM PST by tubebender (Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see...)
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To: tubebender
I'm duckin' that speculation for the moment...

13 posted on 01/05/2004 8:43:07 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi Mac ....... Become a Monthly at FR... https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: NormsRevenge
We have all the government we can afford, it keeps growing like a cancer that will destroy its host!
14 posted on 01/29/2004 7:28:14 AM PST by buffyt (We have all the government we can afford, it keeps growing like a cancer that will destroy its host!)
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We have all the government we can afford

And sadly, much more than we "need".

15 posted on 01/29/2004 8:22:05 AM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi Mac ...... /~normsrevenge - FoR California Propositions/Initiatives info...)
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