A while back, we talked about the Republicans failure to be pragmatic? Well, how’s this for pragmatic…even if they get what they want, they won’t put taxes on the ballot:<\/p>\n
Senate Republicans have no interest now in providing votes to put Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed tax increase extensions before voters, even if Democrats agree to overhaul the state’s pension system and enact a spending cap, the Senate’s top Republican said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Sen. Bob Dutton of Rancho Cucamonga, in an interview with The Bee Capitol Bureau, said Democrats should prepare an all-cuts budget to erase the $26.6 billion budget deficit. He said Republicans may or may not provide votes for that approach.<\/p>\n
“They really don’t need us to govern at all,” Dutton said of the Democrats who control both legislative houses and can make cuts by majority vote. “They just need us if they want to raise taxes.”<\/p>\n
Dutton said the “day of reckoning” has come to California after repeated budget deficits.(SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
We’ve already seen what a no-taxes budget looks like, and frankly, there is no way that the California electorate would support it. So, hey, maybe he should just get the votes to put that on the ballot. See how the voters of of California take to massive cuts to K-12 spending.<\/p>\n
Of course, there are other ways to get these measures on the ballot<\/a>. They aren’t necessarily attractive, but at this point, it’s hard to see how else the state functions. The Republicans, of their own acknowledgement, have no serious interest in seeing anything other than the downfall of this state.<\/p>\n
Maybe it is time to ramp up that split the state talk…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A while back, we talked about the Republicans failure to be pragmatic? Well, how’s this for pragmatic…even if they get what they want, they won’t put taxes on the ballot:<\/p>\n
Senate Republicans have no interest now in providing votes to put Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposed tax increase extensions before voters, even if Democrats agree to overhaul the state’s pension system and enact a spending cap, the Senate’s top Republican said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Sen. Bob Dutton of Rancho Cucamonga, in an interview with The Bee Capitol Bureau, said Democrats should prepare an all-cuts budget to erase the $26.6 billion budget deficit. He said Republicans may or may not provide votes for that approach.<\/p>\n
“They really don’t need us to govern at all,” Dutton said of the Democrats who control both legislative houses and can make cuts by majority vote. “They just need us if they want to raise taxes.”<\/p>\n
Dutton said the “day of reckoning” has come to California after repeated budget deficits.(SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
We’ve already seen what a no-taxes budget looks like, and frankly, there is no way that the California electorate would support it. So, hey, maybe he should just get the votes to put that on the ballot. See how the voters of of California take to massive cuts to K-12 spending.<\/p>\n