i guess deporting a few thousand illegal aliens is out of the question..Hey Jerry! Choke on it! You dips deserve it.
“The new plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1 hinges in large part on voters approving higher taxes.”
Well , if the voters vote to approve higher taxes, let’s take it to court and get it overturned , just like Prop 8.
Sounds like a plan, moonbeam.
At least it will be tied up in court for possibly years.
They want to pay their fair share so let Hollywood bail them out.
“Higher than expected”
It is to laugh.
This comes as a surprise to this jackass? He’s stupider than I thought! (And that’s saying plenty!)
“Gov. Jerry Brown says California facing higher-than-expected $16 billion budget shortfall”
Better headline:
California government illegally overspent 16 Billion dollars and expect taxpayers to foot the bill.
It’s extremely expensive to educate, medicate, and incarcerate Mexico’s citizens, but CA will go bankrupt trying.
i guess deporting a few thousand illegal aliens is out of the question..Yahoo is running this - 14,200+ comments so far, mostly negative. The people get it, the pols don't. Tell me that this is still a Republic.
Symptomatic of Brown's hypocrisy and California's problem is this 2011 article: Brown Deal Lifts Vacation Cap For California Prison Guards
I wonder how much more (taxable) economic activity would have occurred in the State had Uncle Jerry not spent the last year threatening to raise taxes on California’s wealth producers. Businesses and those who start new businesses are fleeing the State out of fear of his new taxes. Each one that leaves takes jobs to some other State. California thus looses taxes that would have been paid by the businesses themselves and the income taxes that would have been paid by their workers.
IF you send it, they will spend it - and keep coming back for more!
Jerry good buddy, the well has run dry. Can’t get blood out of a turnip. Why don’t you ask Senor Calderon down south of the border to send a donation? After all, most working age Mexicans are already here!
Honestly, the Statehouse in Sacramento is a giant toilet bowl in serious need of a FLUSH!
“the shortfall grew from $9.2 billion in January in part because tax collections have not come in as high as expected and the economy isn’t growing as fast as hoped for.”
Hard to understand why. But they can just fix that with a $16 billion tax increase. No sweat.
Democrats, who control the Legislature cause companies and people to leave the state due to taxes and regulations and the state goes broke.
Make plan B and never vote democrat.
Man, “punishing” Evil California businesses by taxing the hell out of them, and forcing them to comply with feel-good environmental legislation, and passing labor laws to please the Unions until Evil California businesses say “screw you” and move to more business-friendly states seem to cut into the tax revenue they need to pay for insanely generous social programs and Big Government! Who knew?
Some reality checks here folks:
1. Tax payers have an upper limit of what they are willing to pay for “effective” government. Notice I didn't say “good” or “bad”. Effective governments accomplishes most of what the tax payers want accomplished.
2. Tax payers know that granting any goverenemtn more funds does not make more “effective’. In fact, the more money a government gets the more likely it is to be ineffective.
3. Given any chance at all a tax payer will take active measures to reduce his tax burden. That's why businesses are leaving California.
4. Given any chance at all a tax payer will take passive measures to reduce his tax burden. That's why businesses aren't expanding in California any more.
5. And finally, tax payers are becoming aware that government officials, elected and otherwise, no longer work for the tax payers. They now work for the organizations that give them larger blocks of money for their elections and reelections. This has been a “hidden” rule in politics at all levels dating back to the late 19th Century. How else did the mobs gain control of so many government entities in the 1920’s and drug runners in the 1980’s? What was a hidden rule has become blatant and the tax payers are saying enough is enough.
Problem: California has a $16 billion budget shortfall. (Note to Rio Linda: This means the state spent $16 billion more than it took in.)
Solution from Gov. Moonbeam and Donkey legislators: Raise taxes by $16 billion. Problem solved. Next problem.
But the DNC is still adding new entitlement programs , read vote buys.
Jerry just added a new program called the dream act, a few months ago.
He said we had the Monet for it.
More lies from Jerry Brown. First, the $16B is a lie - the real deficit is $25B or more if you count the $$ California owes to the USG. Second, the term “temporary tax hike” is an oxymoron - we all know these will become permanent. Third, and speaking of permanent, the only cuts that make sense are the ones Brown is too chicken to propose: 20% across-the-board reduction in funding and staff for every state agency. Get rid of furlough days and pay the remaining employees properly and tell them to do more with less just as the private sector does.
Years ago my Grandpa gave me a bumper sticker: “If it’s Brown, flush it.” Some wisdom is timeless.
More lies from Jerry Brown. First, the $16B is a lie - the real deficit is $25B or more if you count the $$ California owes to the USG. Second, the term “temporary tax hike” is an oxymoron - we all know these will become permanent. Third, and speaking of permanent, the only cuts that make sense are the ones Brown is too chicken to propose: 20% across-the-board reduction in funding and staff for every state agency. Get rid of furlough days and pay the remaining employees properly and tell them to do more with less just as the private sector does.
Years ago my Grandpa gave me a bumper sticker: “If it’s Brown, flush it.” Some wisdom is timeless.