By Bob Walsh
The tentative CA budget proposal from Gavin "God I Want
To Be President" Newsom is a hair of $288 billion. Even he admits that,
just right now, he is about 10% in the hole. That hole could be more
than 20% depending on who you ask, like the Legislative Analysts Office.
Theoretically
Gavin is filling the hole by slashing vacant state jobs and manuvering
other spending cuts, like delaying the considerable raise that health
care workers are supposed to be getting very soon. Too bad he doesn't
think that eliminating government paid health care for illegal aliens or
free state paid lawyers to fight deportation would be a good thing to
slash.
The state has 16
days to pass a budget bill. They have often cheated on that in the past
but that is harder and harder to do as the general public has been
really unpleasant when this happens and they suspend the pay of the
members of the legislature for the period of time in which they have NOT
done their job. In the past the legislature has always agreed to pay
themselves back once a budget is passed. Might not be possible now.
In any event we are about to see an orgy of "whose ox gets gored" over the next two weeks or so. Enjoy the fight.
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