As members of the Euro zone announce their new plan to bailout Spain and turn their back on Greece, Americans can’t help but wonder what this means for those on the other side of the Atlantic.
One has to wonder what the appeal of polluting to excess really is, when push comes to shove. Money is, after all, only an abstraction that we’ve created and assigned value to in order to make our lives easier.
The lynchpin of Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed budget is persuading voters this June to keep paying $9.2 billion of “temporary” taxes for five more years. If they agree to do so, more than one-third of the $26 billion budget gap will be filled.
