{"id":2405,"date":"2010-10-10T09:10:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T17:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2022-11-03T06:59:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T14:59:03","slug":"end-californias-budget-madness-yes-on-proposition-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2405\/end-californias-budget-madness-yes-on-proposition-25\/","title":{"rendered":"End California’s Budget Madness:
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By Ralph E. Stone<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

October 10, 2010<\/p>\n

One hundred days after the beginning of the fiscal year, California finally has a “balanced” budget. Again the balance has been achieved by the usual gimmickry.<\/p>\n

How? By suspending Proposition 98, $1.7 billion of K-12 public education money will be deferred until July 2011; $189 million in Community College funds will be deferred until next year; assuming that California will receive $5.4 billion from the federal government (only $1.3 billion has been approved to date); and $1 billion increase in spending under the dubious assumption that revenues will increase in this troubled economy.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that California is once again deferring the deficit until next fiscal year.<\/p>\n

Why do we have an annual budget crisis? Primarily because California is one of only three states \u2013 Arkansas and Rhode Island are the others \u2013 to require a supermajority to adopt a budget. Thus, each year at budget time, the Republican minority is able to exercise disproportionate control over the budget process because passing a budget requires a two-thirds vote in both houses.<\/p>\n

I, for one, am tired of having to wait until October for the state to finally have a budget and then learn about all the horse trading – often at the public’s expense – that happened to obtain one.<\/p>\n

That’s why it is important that Proposition 25<\/a> pass so that a California’s budget needs only a simple majority in both the Senate and the Assembly to pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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