The California Legislature has passed another so-called on-time state budget. Wink-wink. It’s barely a half-baked budget.
The California Legislature has passed another so-called on-time state budget. Wink, wink. It’s barely a half-baked budget.
The truth is, however, that their new budgeting process is still tons better than the irresponsible, corrupt games playing that occurred before voters passed the 2010 reforms. A senior legislative staffer once explained the ritual to me this way: “Everybody dances around the fire. They throw stuff at us. We throw stuff at them. Everybody falls over dead and we start all over.”In most years between 1990 and 2010, no part of the budget was enacted until at least July, and often in August or September — even once in October.
“‘You were in the service. You understand sometimes you have to make sacrifices. This is a time when people’s fortitude is tested.’ Blah, blah, blah. I voted for it.”“It was painful because we had no control over it,” he says of the summer-long gridlock.
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