By Bob Walsh
Sacramento is the capitol city of the formerly great state of
California. The city has just announced that all departments should
prepare for a 15% budget cut to eliminate a large budget shortfall. It
is easy to spend OPM (other people's money) but at some point the bill
becomes due and the city can not print money nor can they raise taxes
like nobody will care, because people will care, and make their large
purchases next door if the sale tax gets stupid. You can only raise
"fees" so much and the peasants will revolt.
The
state budget is getting "interesting" as well. Gavin Newsom, the
God-Emperor of California, has been "reluctant" to properly fund for
Proposition 36, which passed OVERWHELMINGLY in CA back in November.
Newsom hates it because it mandates drug treatment for certain people
and throws their ass into jails and prisons if they both refuse
treatment and keep committing crimes. Newsom doesn't believe in
personal responsibility for criminal behavior. He therefore intends to
punish the voters for passing a ballot initiative that he did not
personally approve of. Even some members of the super-majority
Democrat-Socialist party and pushing on him to get with the program.
Whether the push will be effective remains to be seen.
In
Los Angeles the City Administrative Officer, Matt Szabo, has said that
the city is looking at a shortfall of about $1 billion. He asserts that
the budget that Mayor Karen Bass will propose on April 21 will close
that massive gap but will result in difficult decisions being made and
will "almost certainly" require staff reductions (layoffs). The city is
looking at an anticipated reduction of $315 million in income via
taxes, $100 million plus in liability payouts and $275 million to
restore the reserve fund. They are thus far not talking about cutting
back goodies for illegal aliens, known as undocumented democrats during
the Harris-Biden administration.
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