I'm still trying to figure out how problems in California make life better for Ohio... FWIW, that article you posted a link to says surplus estimates have been too conservative and that they will continue grow at least until 2020... and as for the idiots in our legislature, Brown has flat out told them he will veto any bill passed that doesn't include creating a rainy day fund and stashing the surpluses into it. He has shown he is way more conservative -- especially fiscally -- than he was the first time he was governor, let alone the succession of idiot governors preceding him who balanced our state budget with bonds. He slashed state spending and rather than ramming tax increases down our throats, gave us voters a chance to choose between more cutting and slashing or a temporary tax. The voters, not I -- not Brown, chose the temporary tax.
Brown has stood up to the legislature repeatedly since elected and that is why we have budget surpluses now vs. the $10-$20 billion dollar deficits the previous governors allowed the legislature to create -- btw, we have such lousy state legislators (in both parties) because of term limits -- legislators who actually know how to govern have to leave and rookie idiots take their places, allowing the lobbyists to write the laws. I agree that our state government is broken, but am glad that this new incarnation of Brown has put them in their place and made his agenda stand, not theirs.
It's possible I actually know more about what's going on in our state than you. I was alarmed by your original post, thinking I'd missed something, but then you clarified that you'd meant cities and made up the part about the state going bankrupt by a judges order. |
