Brown Announces California Budget (buying a house, unemployment, buying)

[bmw335xi]

California budget: Jerry Brown's plan to plug $25B deficit - Jan. 10, 2011

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Brown spares K-12 education, wants tax extension

I don't think any Republican believed Brown when he said he would work hard to bring California back to fiscal responsibility. I don't necessarily affiliate myself with any party, but I was one of these people who didn't believe Brown's words. I'm happy to see he kept to his statement and I think the areas he wants to trim are some of the best areas, the bulk coming from state workers. I wouldn't mind paying high taxes if the government would show they are making sacrifices as well.

$12 billion in extended tax hikes and $12.5 billion in spending cuts.

Will you vote to extend current tax hikes in June? ...see poll

[Lovehound]

I guarantee I will be voting NO on any measures or proposition to raise taxes without even reading them. IMO it's time for government to make do with what they've already got. I want the basic government model, not the deluxe model. I don't expect most people will agree with me (in other words I think some or all of the tax increases will pass). Makes little difference to me anyway. I'm in the process of selling my house, will be moving my legal residence temporarily to Ventura County, and in the next year or so I'll be buying a house in another state.

[BacktoBlue]

"His budget plan makes deep cuts to the University of California, California State University and California Community Colleges while protecting funding for kindergarten through 12th grade education."




Exactly what I DIDN'T want him to do.

[BacktoBlue]

I will only vote for higher taxes if the state employees are taking a cut in their paychecks.

[drshang]

Originally Posted by BacktoBlue

I will only vote for higher taxes if the state employees are taking a cut in their paychecks.

This. And that includes police, fire, prison guards too.

[Ulysses61]

"I will only vote for higher taxes if the state employees are taking a cut in their paychecks."

This has already happened. I teach at a Cal State University and my pay has been cut 11% in the past 3 years. So has every other professor and classified person seen the same percentage of pay cuts. I'm not even including the 6 furlough days we have to take which is a further reduction of pay.

[BacktoBlue]

Originally Posted by Ulysses61

"I will only vote for higher taxes if the state employees are taking a cut in their paychecks."

This has already happened. I teach at a Cal State University and my pay has been cut 11% in the past 3 years. So has every other professor and classified person seen the same percentage of pay cuts. I'm not even including the 6 furlough days we have to take which is a further reduction of pay.

and as a University student I understand that. I am quite tired of the education cuts too!

[jbunniii]

I will vote yes if, and only if, the proposed cuts are accepted AND something is done about pension reform, which is conspicuously absent from Gov. Brown's proposal. Also, I disagree with him that K-12 cuts should be off the table.

The cuts he has proposed are a great first step, though. I voted for him and so far am glad I did.

[yeahthatguy]

I will not vote for any tax increase extensions . We were already generous and gave them 2 years of increased tax hikes hikes already on top of high taxes. Enough of this extend and pretend. Just like unemployment extensions which they keep saying they are going to end .. they will keep extending this crap until its permanent. They had time to gracefully enact budget cuts.. They didn't.. for 2 years they goof'd off ... 7 frigging years of tax increases? GTFO here.

It's no wonder people/businesses are leaving this state.
As for the people who are cool w/ extending the tax increases..., I would love to hear their reasoning.
People tend to be a glutton for punishment in this state.... Some clowns in office tell them they need 1% more.. 2% more.. 3% more the moron liberals here just eat it up ... Regardless of the majority of it is being pissed away in the wind .... California is going to price itself and tax itself out of a recovery ... So keep it up people. The liberal bleeding hearts of California could use a lesson in economics/reality.

Compassion ends when it comes down to feeding your own vs. some illegal immigrant .... criminal .. overpaid public worker... But people here would take from their own if someone presented a good enough sob story. The past has been marked by : Cut a little . Tax more .... I guess people's memory is short... This is not a compromise .. We compromised for 2 years... for 2 years we yielded to higher taxes and wtf did the govt. of california do? Spend and pretend more... Pretend on some b.s recovery making things better.... At some point you have to have a cutoff. Always shocked me how California has some of the brightest minds in the United States busting their behinds 10-12 hour a day in the valley yet they are too cowardly to demand they are compensated for their hard work and continue letting cunning clowns in govt. and undeserving slackers leech off of their hard work due to some horribly constructed sob story about being compassionate/humane ....

The tax extensions should be voluntary ... If you agree w/ em, you pay em. You should be able to opt in/out. Want to be extra giving... Go right ahead IMO.. But that shouldn't determine if I should have to.

[BacktoBlue]

What is a "Rainy Day" reserve fund?