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**Mearticbaibre** · 02-19-2009, 02:19 AM

They need to write a budget that will garner the necessary votes. Pretty simple.

They actually had it until right wing radio nuts staged a protest at the office of one Republican moderate telling him they'd attempt to use the state's recall system (which both parties have used to target politicians who don't tow the party line) on any Republican who voted for any bill which included any tax increases. It's virtually impossible to cut enough spending to cover the almost $41 billion deficit because such massive amounts of the budget have already been made mandatory by voters (education alone is legally required to get 50% of all state tax revenue with some 2-3 dozen other mandatory spending measures spending measures having been passed over the last 40 years). Everyone always votes for propositions to increase spending while also voting for propositions to cut taxes. It doesn't take a genius to realize this causes deficits.

The other major problem is the constitutional "reforms" passed by Republicans in the early 80's which made it so super majorities are required to raise any taxes or cut any spending but only requiring a simple majority to add new spending. This has caused huge gridlock in the state government.

02-19-2009, 02:19 AM	#25
Mearticbaibre Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 413 Senior Member	They need to write a budget that will garner the necessary votes. Pretty simple. They actually had it until right wing radio nuts staged a protest at the office of one Republican moderate telling him they'd attempt to use the state's recall system (which both parties have used to target politicians who don't tow the party line) on any Republican who voted for any bill which included any tax increases. It's virtually impossible to cut enough spending to cover the almost $41 billion deficit because such massive amounts of the budget have already been made mandatory by voters (education alone is legally required to get 50% of all state tax revenue with some 2-3 dozen other mandatory spending measures spending measures having been passed over the last 40 years). Everyone always votes for propositions to increase spending while also voting for propositions to cut taxes. It doesn't take a genius to realize this causes deficits. The other major problem is the constitutional "reforms" passed by Republicans in the early 80's which made it so super majorities are required to raise any taxes or cut any spending but only requiring a simple majority to add new spending. This has caused huge gridlock in the state government.
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