California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will seek âterrible cutsâ to eliminate an $18.6 billion budget deficit facing the most-populous U.S. state through June 2011, his spokesman said. Schwarzenegger, 62, who will introduce his revised budget plans on May 14, has said he wonât seek tax increases to bolster Californiaâs finances. The Republicanâs forecast for the budget gap may rise after revenue fell short of his targets last month. âWe canât get through this deficit without very terrible cuts,â Schwarzenegger spokesman Aaron McLear told reporters in Sacramento. âWe donât believe that raising taxes right now is the right thing to do.â http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601010&sid=aMHZOCQK9hC4 Actually somebody in the US understanding the expression "spending cuts". Good to know Arnold is native of good, old Austria...hum, Europe...
Actions speak louder than words. Let's wait and see what and how much gets cut before we start praising Arnie.
of course when he proposes cuts to education the teachers union is gonna squawk like mad. 'Let's not punish the children'...I can hear it already. Everybody's gonna have to tighten their belts a little bit, so I hope the media and the public understand that. Cuts are gonna be coming to everybody.
I've lived in California, and I always wondered where the hell does the money go? Property taxes are low, but high state income tax rate, the highest sales tax in the country (10.75% in some locales), high taxes on gas and cigarettes and booze. Terrible roads, the worst I've been on in the US, and I have personally driven on the roads in 31 of our states. Overcrowded classrooms with embarrassingly low test scores. Truly the only thing Cali has going for it is the weather. If you've never lived there, take my word for it; it is really nice. That and high paying tech jobs. Somebody must be getting rich off the state's tit, but I never figured out who.