Because the state has been sooooo effective at managing tax money to date. 20 years ago the state budget was $60 billion, it is now $175 billion, and the state GDP hasn't tripled. Money flowing for the productive to the unproductive simply because of voting. And the proponents are telling taxpayers that the revenue stream will go to fund afterschool programs....
California also has a surplus right now and didn't when Brown took over. But it's cool if you would rather pot farmers keep all of their illegal money and not get taxed for a lot of it, can't really stop you. Are you a pot farmer by any chance?
Plastic bags, pot, and the death penalty aren't that exciting but we do have Prop 60... "Requires adult film performers to use condoms during filming of sexual intercourse. Requires producers to pay for performer vaccinations, testing, and medical examinations. Requires producers to post condom requirement at film sites. Fiscal Impact: Likely reduction of state and local tax revenues of several million dollars annually. Increased state spending that could exceed $1 million annually on regulation, partially offset by new fees." So because these people can't figure out how to form a union and get healthcare, make smart choices, get a less risky job, they want the taxpayer to do it for them and they want the nanny state to regulate it all.
I think you are missing the point. Does a producer give a shit if the men and women he films gets aids? Hell no, no one wants condoms in their porn. It's a money thing. The producers should pay for all of that.
6 sounds like an open invitation to siphon money from the treasury for any kind of pork barrel project some idiot thinks will get himself reelected
"The bipartisan Legislative Analysts’ Office has announced that California’s 2015-16 personal income tax collection has fallen from a huge surplus to a $147 million deficit. The cause appears to be plummeting Silicon Valley capital gains and weakening tech employment. The quick reversal of fortunes for the state budget is disturbing, since the California State Controller reported that personal income tax collections through December had been at a $1.276 billion surplus...... with a “structural deficit” relying on $16 billion in capital gains taxes to balance the budget, Breitbart News warned last June, “California will be as broke as Greece if the stock market ever tanks again.” Two months later, the stock market plunged by 20 percent.....In a disturbing trend for the State of California, computer and telecommunications sectors were the third and fourth largest sectors for corporate layoffs ,with a combined 14,374 job cuts. Like gamblers on a hot streak that seem to lose all sense of reality, and who double-up their bets against high odds, California’s Governor Brown and the Democrat-controlled legislature have doubled down spending on the welfare." I've said it before, CalPERS is destroying any hope of a future in CA. Gov Brown has not managed to renegotiate that contract and he doesn't want to....because he'll get to partake as well. We are the most regulated state in the country and it's suffocating business growth and entrepreneurship. The increasing "generosity" of the gubment in welfare payments results in the number of illegals who are draining the state dry. California has typically relied on housing construction and at the moment, multi-family housing starts have decreased 8% from a year ago and expect to end the year at 10%.
