After April 15th, and my mandatory cooling off vacation, I’ve returned and posting will now resume at the usual rate.
First up on the agenda is the May special election on Propositions 1A through 1F. These six ballot measures are designed to implement the bad budget that passed in Sacramento last February. I’ll have more about these measures in depth next week; for now, these measures look and feel just as bad as the budget. One of these is a tax increase (though you would have to go into the fine print to realize that), and none of them will go towards a long-term solution of California’s budgetary fiasco.
There still remains just one such solution: massive cuts to programs and spending. Sooner or later these cuts will occur.
Unfortunately, we are left with these ballot measures on the ballot on Tuesday, May 19th.