Pennylynn wrote:
What 44 page PDF? I am not redirecting, I am pointing out that governors establish the budgets for their states. The governors submit their request for Federal funding..... It is not a automatic line item for federal budget. The governors, after receiving a consolidated budget report, sends their state requirements to the Fed to be reviewed and presented to Appropriations for consideration.
As for California, the majority of their governors have been Republican. We will keep an eye on Gavin Newsom to see if he has to raise taxes. During his campaign he pledged support for a variety of expensive public services, including universal health insurance coverage and universal pre-kindergarten care and education.
His initial budget offered only token appropriations for those and other items on his wish list, but were he to seriously pursue them, they would require tens of billions of dollars in new taxes each year.
Newsom has proposed a new tax on water to pay for cleaning up municipal water supplies in impoverished communities. Several other targeted taxes have also been introduced in the Legislature.
Meanwhile, an initiative has qualified for the 2020 b****t to undo some of Proposition 13’s property tax limits. The measure would create a “split roll,” removing the 2 percent annual cap on increases in assessed valuation for non-residential, non-agricultural commercial property, such as office building and shopping centers.
If passed, it would raise property taxes by perhaps $10 billion a year – a lot of money, certainly, but far short of what the most ambitious service expansions would need. However, the initial polling on the split-roll measure doesn’t bode well for its passage, and the commercial real estate industry has pledged to spend $100 million to defeat it.
The more likely avenue for big tax increases would be some version of tax reform, which Newsom has endorsed in principle.
However, it must contend with the simple fact that we Californians are, in the aggregate, already carrying one of the nation’s highest tax burdens and quite possibly the highest.
Meanwhile, last year's count revealed that about 130,000 Californians were homeless—nearly a quarter of the national total. California's rate of homelessness, 33 per 10,000 residents, was among the highest in the country. Plus, U.S. Census Bureau's supplemental poverty measure shows roughly 7.5 million Californians — about 19 percent of the state population — live in poverty. California is one of the three states tied for highest poverty rate, alongside Florida and Louisiana. And coupled with that the suicide rate rose from 8.2 suicides per 100,000 residents to 10.9 suicides per 100,000 residents. Nearly a quarter of the nation's undocumented immigrants reside in California, where they constitute more than 6% of the state's population. The state's violent crime rate increased dramatically from 1960 to 1980, from 236 to 888 violent crimes per 100,000 residents—a staggering 276% rise. All in all, not a unicorn and all smiles state.
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