California: Budget woes hit new low: No votes

Sac Bee ^ | 8/6/02 | Jim Sanders

[NormsRevenge]

California's budget standoff hit new lows Monday night when a proposed spending plan received zero votes.

The alternative plan was designed to turn the tables on dissident Republicans who have balked at the Democrats' $99 billion plan.

For weeks, Assembly Republican leaders have sought to kill $3.7 billion in proposed tax increases. They have pushed for spending cuts, not revenue enhancements, to fill gaping holes in the state's budget.

[NormsRevenge]

DUMP DAVI$ & the Den of Socialists



GO SIMON

[Guillermo]

Amazing how politicians (supposed conservative ones) STILL think that MORE MONEY is the answer to the public education fiasco.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Democrats argued that Republicans' no-new-taxes demand would force a $1.5 billion cut in school spending. Republicans countered that they have no intention of hurting schools.

Well, they ought to. Last I heard out of the $30 billion education budget, $10 billion never leaves Sacramento...and can't be fully accounted for. A 50% budget cut for the educrats is long overdue.

[Free the USA]

fyi

[goldstategop]

Republicans should be backing deep cuts for all the Rats' favorite constituents. Let em scream.