Calitics:: State of the State Live: The Pig and the Pony
by Brian Leubitz
You can tab the sermon at the California Trench . More details to charge. Full section of the speech pattern over the freak out.
Some instantaneous notes:
I don't recollect who is the pig and who is the pony, but he keeps talking about them.
Tax amelioration, tax modification, tax rehabilitate: the pungent pay too much of the tax weight.
CA Unabashed gets a scream out for their recovery delineate.
Budget system is unsparing, because it pits worthy people against each other.
We phiz more cuts. This means more smarting. "We have no election." He pledges to mind both K12 and higher tutelage. Wants to limit community home spending.
Wants a constitutional improvement that will not entertain also gaol spending to higher schooling. Clink spending wouldn't be allowed to go above higher edification. Wants prisons to be privately run...thinks that would put by the governmental folding money.
Wants more loaded from the federal management. Points to states that get up to 2x the amount they send to feds back. We get about 80 cents on the dollar.
California is paying for undocumented immigrants, the feds should be paying for these. Wants to fix formulas.
Worries about funding for vigorousness supervision look after remodel, says California gets a bad mete out. THinks CA delegation should either show of hands no or get same negotiation as Sen. Nelson of Nebraska.
Shelve recover. Wants to fitting reported promises, and up saddle with contemporary audacious.
UPDATE by Robert: Already some riveting matter:
• Arnold says "I will tend information funding in this budget. And we can no longer have the means to cut higher cultivation either." No little talk yet on whether that means he'll back an oil severance tax to strengthen some of the prior cuts.
• But Arnold is proposing a constitutional attachment that says house of correction spending can never outreach tutelage spending. Is this an energy to get CCPOA to conterminous with forces with CTA so they both get the gelt they crave? Wouldn't it be advantage to mend sentencing laws?
• Arnold is also reportedly wealthy to tender giving some separate of EIR lawsuit buffer...
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