On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > Not so much. Most of the property taxes stay at the local level.
Seems ironic that a decision is made on the state level to restrict something that is a local funding source? The state cuts local funds off and then goes broke and can't support anyone. Classic California way of doing things. > State budget crisis is because the state cannot by law spend more than > the revenue collected. This fantastic actually, IMHO. Without this I think California would be even deeper in the hole. > When Arnold took office, he killed an existing > tax increase on vehicle taxes that would have brought in billions, I think this is one of this issues that actually got him elected, if I remember correctly. And one of the things (thought not the primary thing) that was used to boot Gray Davis out of office. > kowtowed to the unions, especially the prison guard union, for pay > increases, Many places in California does have ridiculous pension programs for govt workers too. That's actually one of the huge issues that was causing San Diego's financial crisis while I lived there. Unions are lame. > and based several budgets on funds promised by the feds and > never delivered. Yay for Federal vs State's rights. Another great reason increasingly centralized govt cannot be a good thing for us. > The entire budget is available here: http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/ > > I like to ask people who are bitching about the CA budget to review > it and tell me what they really want removed. So far, no one has > answered That site's not loading for me right now, but if it's the same one I found yesterday when I entered this thread, it would require some serious time to even comprehend it. Where is a simple pie chart with blowout sub-areas? Guess I'm lazy. -Cameron ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318686 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
