$16 Billion Deficit Underscores Need For Real Reforms

Governor Jerry Brown announced this week that the deficit has ballooned to a monstrous $16 billion dollars, an amount equal to 17 percent of the state’s entire general fund. So, California’s self-perpetuating job killing machine continues.

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Proposition 25: No Budget, No Pay? Actually, No Teeth

This week, we saw any credible enforcement of the measure defanged when a judge said the state controller had no authority to block the Legislature’s pay last year when he determined that the budget they had passed was not balanced.

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