How should California balance the budget?

Quote from Anonymouse : Could cut the prison budget by packing all those without papers into buses and not letting them off until they get to Washington D.C. Let DC handle the illegal immigration problem, since they created it in the first place. How much you wanna bet the borders will be more secure than Ft. Knox inside a month, if AZ, CA, & TX did that?

That's a great idea 'Mouse.

Quote from cruizerfish : Declare BK and get it over with already.

With the amount of money California owes, that will be very interesting...............

Quote from Elmer : With the amount of money California owes, that will be very interesting...............

As long as California has water, everything will be alright in the end.

This is an old article.. Its worse in California now.. But it is still a "Good Read"..
California's Government is "Fiscal Irresponsible and Incompetent."

Quote : California Is Broke: 19 Reasons It May Be Time For Everyone To Leave The State For Good http://www.businessinsider.com/re...ia-2010-10

switch to Fair Tax

Operation Wetback.

Homers. I agree 100% with you. This is the obvious plan for the smart people. The problem is that we have a lot of dumb and/or selfish and/or weenie people in the state.

I'm tired of being asked to "compromise" and pay more taxes. The last tax increase was 2 years long and is expiring soon. Thank goodness we voters in the special election [ballotpedia.org] in 2009 chose NOT to extend it two more years. It did nothing but to kick the can down the road and our debt / liabilities are growing. It's like trying to put a band-aid on a wound like this:



Why any taxpayer of CA thinks more taxes makes sense is beyond me. But it really p*sses me off.

Quote from homers : Being that we are the highest taxed citizens of any state, the taxpayer has already ponied up to the table. 1) Public employee unions need pay, benefit and pension cuts 2) illegal aliens ($10-12 Billion drain a year) -- about 1/2 the annual deficit 3) Prison cost control - why does it cost CA $50K/year to house an inmate while most other big states do it for $25K? 4) The CALPERS (State retirement system) is suppose to support itself, this year the state will pay $6 Billion to CALPERS and an estimate $8 Billion next year. This is double the amount the state contributes to our university system and is about 33% of the annual deficit. Take away #2, #3 and #4 and we'd have no deficit problem. This Dems plan for a compromise 50% tax hikes and 50% cuts is not accurate on face value. The 50% tax cuts are for 1 year and liable to increase in future years. The 50% tax hikes are "temporary" for 5 years. So, the tax hikes add up to an additional $50 - $60 billion over 5 years, while the actual tax cuts amount to $8 Billion. If my math is correct, $50 Billion doesn't equal $8 Billion.

Quote : How should California balance the budget?

This is a start.. Its about time..

Quote : California lawmakers to lose their state cars A state panel Thursday stripped California lawmakers of one of their most valued perks -- a state-purchased car, with gas and maintenance provided at taxpayer expense. Jerry Brown ordered state agencies to halt new car purchases and sell automobiles that are not "essential" for state business, with hopes of cutting the state's fleet of 11,000 passenger cars and light trucks in half. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/c...-cars.html

I think that they should target Leftwingers and Illegal Immigrants and Anchor Babies for massive tax increases to pay for the Welfare State and illegal immigrant free for all that they advocated, voted for, and created over the last 40 years there.

Quote from Scoundrel : Homers. I agree 100% with you. This is the obvious plan for the smart people. The problem is that we have a lot of dumb and/or selfish and/or weenie people in the state. I'm tired of being asked to "compromise" and pay more taxes. The last tax increase was 2 years long and is expiring soon. Thank goodness we voters in the special election [ballotpedia.org] in 2009 chose NOT to extend it two more years. It did nothing but to kick the can down the road and our debt / liabilities are growing. It's like trying to put a band-aid on a wound like this: Why any taxpayer of CA thinks more taxes makes sense is beyond me. But it really p*sses me off.

Because the people that will have to pay it, are outnumbered by those who won't........

Quote from Elmer : Because the people that will have to pay it, are outnumbered by those who won't........

There is just one problem with majority rule: I am in the minority and the minority does not.

Whahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quote from TRNT : There is just one problem with majority rule: I am in the minority and the minority does not. Whahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah.... thieves are always more 'brave" when they're in groups.......

Quote from Anonymouse : Could cut the prison budget by packing all those without papers into buses and not letting them off until they get to Washington D.C. Let DC handle the illegal immigration problem, since they created it in the first place. How much you wanna bet the borders will be more secure than Ft. Knox inside a month, if AZ, CA, & TX did that?

"all those without papers" what does that even mean?

In 2008 the wife and I paid over $30K in personal CA Taxes excluding sales taxes (property, DMV licensing fees, income tax, etc) and another $15k or so in corporate taxes between our 2 companies.

For 2010 we paid just over $9k in personal taxes and the minimum $1600 for 2 S-Corp taxes.

If CA politicians want to act like spoiled children and put their fingers in their ears then I'll treat them as such. I wish everybody in CA would buy from Amazon and purposefully neglect their use tax (yeah like anybody other than corporations pay use taxes).

Personally I find it hilarious how people in Florida are able to buy an LCD for $95 shipped from Newegg and I live 6 minutes from Newegg and would have to pay around $125 for the same item. If that doesn't spell stupidity to anybody with a basic business background I don't know what does.

I'm just finding my life more enjoyable having cut back from working 90 hours a week and feeding the beast to working just weekends and getting my household income low enough the mortgages cancel out tax obligation.

I love how the R and D parties carry no distinction in this state - those 5 Rs meeting with Jerry 2 days ago to "discuss" a compromise at a huge lobbyist whorefest. This will be funny to watch Jerry backtrack on his promise to take the tax vote to the people. Sure they vote for a high speed rail system to serve people going from Bakersfield to Fresno but when they see their IPOD costing 10% in Walmart than Amazon I think they realize they would rather not pay any more taxes.