However as discussed above the real problem is government spending, especially the spending on excessive salaries, benefits, and pensions for state employees; and the problems created by their whoremasters, the state legislators who give the state employees the bucks in exchange for the bribes the legtislators receive in return (campaign donations from their corrupt union buddies).

GOD BLESS US EVERYONE!!!

Hard to argue with that.

But apparently our elected officials cannot agree on how much government should be operating, let alone how much “we” such government operation should cost, or how (and from whom) the “needed revenue” should be extracted under threat of imprisonment.

The trend for such a long time has been to inflict as much government operation as they possibly can on the populace, and to pay as much as possible for such government operation using revenue extracted from personal income taxes (mostly) from high income individuals, property taxes that are all over the map, a ridiculously high sales tax that only applies to goods, not services, and is only voluntarily paid in the form of use tax for goods bought over the internet from out of state sources. And, of course, they borrow, borrow, borrow.

But after years of “what me worry?” the property tax base quits its meteoric rise, the high income folks left in CA don’t make as much of said high income, and people are buying less stuff subject to sales taxes.

So – will government shrink or learn do provide as much of itself at a lower cost? Or, will they try to extract great amounts of revenue from a shrunken economic pie and/or keep borrowing more and more?