California’s budget balancing act gets tougher/SacBee
June 1st, 2009http://www.sacbee.com/capitolandcalifornia/story/1883486.htm
“The LAO’s office suggested imposing a 4.6 percent salary cut on state workers next year, borrowing from state and local transportation projects, raising community college fees, releasing some nonviolent inmates early, altering the state’s “three strikes” law, and eliminating programs ranging from the California conservation Corps to the Commission on the Status of Women.”
Blog:
“If since 1990 state spending increases had been held to the inflation rate plus population growth, the state would have a $15 BILLION SURPLUS.” George Will, Washington Post
The state needs to run these numbers and enact a new budget based on this formula. Bingo…a surplus!
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