New Yorker :: Pox Populi
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> Meanwhile, even as California voters have insisted on keeping
> property taxes low, they have made ever-increasing demands
> on the state budget... Last November, with California already
> facing a twenty-billion-dollar shortfall, voters approved
> measures to fund various housing programs, float a series of
> clean-water bonds, and increase spending on after-school
> programs. This last initiative, Proposition 49, necessitated
> some five hundred million dollars a year in new expenditures
> while providing no new revenues to pay for them. The
> campaign for Proposition 49 was led and, in part, financed
> by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

It makes sense that only a New Yorker would be capable of any perspective on the current state of California politics.
posted by Tomohiro Idokoro @ 4:43 PM

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