Comments on: Democrats Balance California’s Budget And Increase Education Spending

By: onedonewong

onedonewong — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Lets see the State has a deficit of $28 BILLION an unemployment rate of 10% and more cities insolvent due to pension benefits ad this is a success story??/
Most honest brokers would say CA remains the tail end of all the states

By: montanabill

montanabill — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:46:00 +0000

Because of a jump in revenues as the rich pushed income into a lower tax year, Brown and the boys jubilantly hiked their income projections for the future and announced, ‘balanced budget’! This ‘balanced’ thing is based on ‘projections’. Don’t get too excited until a year of real numbers. It might make for a real downfall.

I’m sure you and the rest of this group, though, are very excited at the prospect that taxing ‘someone else’ might allow spending to continue through the roof.

By: Bob Williams

Bob Williams — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:45:00 +0000

What are you smoking, Vila? This state is run by the unions, and the unions own the politicians. We have city after city going through bankruptcy because of insanity such as out-of-control pensions. It is not uncommon for policemen to make $150K a year, and retire at over $100K after 30 years. A clerk at the Port Of Los Angeles docks makes close to $200K per year in salary and benefits.

A 13 percent state income tax and almost 10 percent sales tax do not make for a great place to live. The governor of Texas makes regular recruiting trips to California in order to recruit companies to move to business-friendly Texas, and it’s working.

In the last 10 years, we have had a population increase of about 10 million. Of those 10 million, about 150,000 were taxpayers – the rest are tax takers. The tax takers include state employees, welfare recipients, etc. According to Forbes, for every 100 tax payers, California has 139 “tax takers”.

Check it out on Forbes dot com, and look for the article “Do you live in a Death Spiral State?”.

By: steven c

steven c — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:50:00 +0000

so basically what this is this budget could have been constructed under Arnold but bi-partisan politics held it up. Now the Democrats under Jerry Brown are doing the same thing and calling it their own. Typical politicians.

By: radzell

radzell — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:59:00 +0000

Yeh mississippi, lousiana, montana, or ny, california, maryland chose one.

By: Lynda

Lynda — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:42:00 +0000

There’s a very good reason why the Republican Party is meaningless in California. Comments like yours are an indication of the problem…not the solution to your parties problem.

By: Lynda

Lynda — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:39:00 +0000

You can take a horse (or elephant) to water, but you can’t make him drink.

By: Lisa O'dell

Lisa O'dell — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:37:00 +0000

Competent leadership inspires people. Arnold was incompetence incarnate. A Republican shill.

By: highpckts

highpckts — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:20:00 +0000

Oh my God!!! Another sore loser!!

By: highpckts

highpckts — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:15:00 +0000

CA. again on the leading edge! I fail to understand if a state is doing well, why other states or the federal government can’t follow their lead!