Steven Greenhut: Here is a GOP statement regarding the ongoing budget mess. Perhaps, as one conservative activist suggested to me, the GOP legislators should show up at the Capitol ready to produce a budget and wait for the Democrats to show up also. They can have a daily press conference asking, “Where’s the leadership?”
From the GOP:
Today California is 20 days into the new fiscal year without a budget plan in place. In 20 days the amount of overspending has now surpassed $1 billion dollars. Assembly Republican Leader Martin Garrick and Senate Republican Leader Dennis Hollingsworth released the following joint statement on the status of budget negotiations:
“The state’s overspending tab has now surpassed $1 billion with the budget 20 days late, as Democrats delay spending reductions. Each day that passes without a balanced budget in place California’s government spends $52.3 million more than it receives in revenues. Republicans are united behind a responsible plan to close a $19.1 billion deficit, while Democrats refuse to cut spending and continue to push for tax increases to fuel this unsustainable spending.”
What the Republicans in the Legislature should do is combine their GOP senators and GOP assemblymen, get together, form a rump Legislature, pass laws repealing all income and sales taxes, cut the budget 80%, and if Arnold doesn’t sign it, replace him with someone who will — and go home.
That’s precisely what the Republicans have been proposing all along, John,. And that’s why we’re in gridlock.
Long live gridlock!
Maybe the state, like Maywood, then can out-source everything:
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world/maywood-city-services-improve-as-it-begins-to-outsource-everything_100399542.html