What Brown is doing is forcing the public to make conscious choices about taxes and spending. Deconstructing how the state's massive unbalance happened.
Kick-the-can has been a political game from Republicans and Democrats, promoted by politically skewed tax-cuts, from an out-of-control majority-win ballot initiative system combined with the necessary super-majority in the Legislature to have elected representatives develop responsible, economically reasoned tax policy.
The people need to know what programs can't be sustained by just producing debt. And Brown is putting it right on their dinner plates.
The middle class is taxed enough in California; its time to look at who lobbied with spin, and got the unwise breaks and loopholes... and IMO the road leads right to Howard Jarvis and his lobbyist legacy. They continue o be the lobbyist's choice of machine, and the dittoheads still jump without examining the pit, when told too.
Sure, for example., the costs in our criminal justice system are in need of reforms... Everybody on the right, while complaining about public unions, loved "three strikes" law and reducing Judges' discretion with harsher sentencing laws, nobody thought about the costs and other unintended consequences. How many potentially productive people can we sustain in jails?? What are the additional costs of broken families?? (Not talking about violent felons here.)
BTW, NOBODY is for tax waste, or fraud, lets get past that. It's a constant problem. Public universities, public health, ROI proven state services, even the State Parks are what drive the special California economy. |
