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Governor Brown has just released his "budget" for the next 18 months, on a yearly basis it is, per Brown, around $84 billion. That is not the full story. A budget is the amount of money to be spent by the State. That amount is actually about $250 billion.
Brown starts off by NOT telling us about how he and the legislature will spend about $170 billion.
Then he wants to extend the February, 2009 tax hikes that are supposed to expire by July 1, 2011--for FIVE more years. One of the reasons we are losing jobs is the high tax rate. He wants to continue the California Great Depression by at least another five years. We have seen solar panel firms, the "green" industry, leave California for Mississippi and South Carolina, in part because of our high taxes--he wants more firms and jobs to leave the State.
His "budget" is $84 billion--that is ONLY if we agree to keep high taxes. In an Arnold special election the people said NO to higher taxes. In November, 2010 the voters said NO to higher taxes. Now he is trying to use blackmail to get us to keep high taxes. When that fails, he creates a $10 billion addition to the deficit. Also, note his budget does not include money to pay for the approximate $10 billion in lawsuits the State has lost and the lawsuits it will lose this year, in this budget. In fact, he has built in at least $20 billion in ADDITIONAL deficits.
Maybe the most immoral part of his "budget" is his desire to cut employees pay by up to 10%; but, only those who do not pay bribes to unions to work. Non union people get cut; workers who pay bribes are allowed to keep their pay in tact. Punishing people for being honest and rewarding those forced to pay bribes. Then, again, we all knew he is owned by the unions.
Jerry Brown can not be seen today due to all the smoke and mirrors around him. Dishonest budgeting is the proper term for his effort to punish Californians for the out of control government left behind by Arnold and the Sacramento Democrats. As Nancy Reagan would say, this time about the taxes, "Just Say NO".
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Brown starts off by NOT telling us about how he and the legislature will spend about $170 billion.
Then he wants to extend the February, 2009 tax hikes that are supposed to expire by July 1, 2011--for FIVE more years. One of the reasons we are losing jobs is the high tax rate. He wants to continue the California Great Depression by at least another five years. We have seen solar panel firms, the "green" industry, leave California for Mississippi and South Carolina, in part because of our high taxes--he wants more firms and jobs to leave the State.
His "budget" is $84 billion--that is ONLY if we agree to keep high taxes. In an Arnold special election the people said NO to higher taxes. In November, 2010 the voters said NO to higher taxes. Now he is trying to use blackmail to get us to keep high taxes. When that fails, he creates a $10 billion addition to the deficit. Also, note his budget does not include money to pay for the approximate $10 billion in lawsuits the State has lost and the lawsuits it will lose this year, in this budget. In fact, he has built in at least $20 billion in ADDITIONAL deficits.
Maybe the most immoral part of his "budget" is his desire to cut employees pay by up to 10%; but, only those who do not pay bribes to unions to work. Non union people get cut; workers who pay bribes are allowed to keep their pay in tact. Punishing people for being honest and rewarding those forced to pay bribes. Then, again, we all knew he is owned by the unions.
Jerry Brown can not be seen today due to all the smoke and mirrors around him. Dishonest budgeting is the proper term for his effort to punish Californians for the out of control government left behind by Arnold and the Sacramento Democrats. As Nancy Reagan would say, this time about the taxes, "Just Say NO".
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