Gov. Brown stumped vigorously for the Proposition 30 tax hikes, saying, “You vote for Prop. 30, you know you’re getting six to eight billion dollars pumped into California schools.” Yet his proposed budget spends just $2.7 billion out of the $6 billion tax hike on schools. The rest goes to state workers’ pay. Gov. Brown compounds this sleight of hand by then proposing to spend Prop. 39’s $1 billion in new taxes raised on schools, even though the law clearly says that money has to go to “green energy” projects.
Gov. Brown’s budget is not balanced and will not reduce the debt. It doesn’t even use the new tax money voters just approved as they were promised. In May, voters will likely be told that “unforeseen” circumstances have caused another round of budget woes.
Doesn’t matter. California voters are leftist rational ignoramuses. They like being raped repeatedly by the liberal fascist state.
BTW, every single budget that the state has announced has been “balanced.” Balanced budgets are required by law here. Of course, none of those budgets were actually balanced. The state just lied and said they were.
Just as Governor Fascist Moonbeam is doing here.
One last note: There is an almost one for one correlation between increased school spending in California and decreases in school performance. Cheering for the new school spending is like standing beneath a would-be suicide atop and building and chanting, “Jump! Jump!”
Thirty years ago, California was 43rd in per pupil spending, and teachers’ average salary was around 36th. Today, per pupil spending is still 43rd, but average teacher salaries are 4th in the nation. Progress!