New Republic Embraces Fiction of California's Balanced Budget
Everything's fine, as long as you completely ignore the public pension crisis that is bankrupting us all!
Everything's fine, as long as you completely ignore the public pension crisis that is bankrupting us all!
Cashing in rather than cutting back
Californians may have to pay even more to fight tickets or access state records
Assuming, of course, actual spending matches the budget, which it never does
Whines about "political timidity" while failing to organize a solid solution
Leading from behind. Far, far behind. Like from behind Indiana.
State casts about for new stones to get blood from
Trying to cast businesses in California as creating a tax burden for residents requires a certain amount of deliberate contextual blindness
Hid funds from the state in midst of fiscal crisis
Now retired, pulls in annual pension of $175,000, while working another job
Don't bank on that Prop. 30 money, kids
Fiddling with the rules while the economy burns
State psychiatrist rakes in More than $800,000 a year
That's only the fifth heaviest burden in the country
Feeble attempts thus far aren't fixing problems
Nine percent drop in corporation tax collections
Times columnist messes with Texas and loses in laugh-free, fact-challenged airdrop.
No amount of crying over evil Scott Walker will help governments fix their bleeding balance sheets
The fight over public sector unions moves to the Great Lakes State
When "We Are Wisconsin" really means "We are union members from New Jersey, Alaska and other states"
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