State senator, Jenny Oropeza, is extremely upset that some cities, such as Roseville, are issuing discounted tickets to traffic offenders, thus robbing the state of much-needed revenue. While Roseville appears to possess one of the more lax ticket policies, city law enforcement claims that a whopping 75% of traffic tickets still charge the normal state fines.
California’s budget gap is mostly accountable to lawmakers and voters agreeing to higher levels of spending for years. I strongly implore everyone reading this to glance at the California budget history for these indisputable statistics.
“If we bail out California, then aren’t all of California’s problems just shifted to us, and nobody’s really learned a lesson here?” Glen asks former Reagan economic adviser Art Laffer, to which he replies: “This is not something that’s going to last forever, Glenn.
With “12% of the nation's gross domestic product” California’s economic problems is bound to affect the entire nation. Income tax fell by a staggering 34% and personal income declined for the first time since the Great Depression.
"These immediate savings will avoid a summer cash crisis and prevent the need for issuing IOU's," says Speaker of the Assembly Karen Bass. If passed, this would get the state through August financially. Ironically, these were first proposed by the governor.
The Democrats failed to pass the first of 20 budget proposals yesterday (Wed 6/24). Not that it would have been too much better otherwise, as this proposal addressed only $11 of the $24 billion problem. Gov.
Last month the US Supreme Court refused to hear San Diego's (joined by San Bernardino County) case, originally filed in 2006, which asserts that federal law trumps state law in regards to the legal
