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A SLAP DOWN RATHER THAN A HAND UP!
State GOP Seeks $22 Billion In Cuts, Borrowing
SACRAMENTO (AP) ― Republican lawmakers on Monday rehashed their proposals for large cuts to education and social service programs, while raiding other funds to close part of California's massive budget shortfall.
"We believe there's a way to do this without taxes," said Assembly Minority Leader Mike Villines, R-Clovis.
Villines and Senate Minority Leader Dave Cogdill, R-Modesto, released a plan that they said would free up more than $22 billion in state spending and continued to press for a spending cap and business tax credits. However, both Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration and Democratic leaders said the proposal failed to address a cash shortage two months away.
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, said Democrats planned to put up a budget package Tuesday consisting of roughly $9 billion in revenues and $8 billion in cuts so the state could weather a cash crisis this February.
The GOP plan included cuts to education totaling more than $10 billion in the next 18 months and about $6.5 billion largely by taking funds designated for children's and mental health programs. The proposal to take money from California's First 5 and Mental Health Services Act would require voter approval in the spring.
Republicans also proposed a 5 percent salary cut for lawmakers and are seeking to ask poor families enrolled in the state's welfare-to-work program to accept a 10 percent reduction.
State GOP Seeks $22 Billion In Cuts, Borrowing
SACRAMENTO (AP) ― Republican lawmakers on Monday rehashed their proposals for large cuts to education and social service programs, while raiding other funds to close part of California's massive budget shortfall.
"We believe there's a way to do this without taxes," said Assembly Minority Leader Mike Villines, R-Clovis.
Villines and Senate Minority Leader Dave Cogdill, R-Modesto, released a plan that they said would free up more than $22 billion in state spending and continued to press for a spending cap and business tax credits. However, both Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration and Democratic leaders said the proposal failed to address a cash shortage two months away.
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, said Democrats planned to put up a budget package Tuesday consisting of roughly $9 billion in revenues and $8 billion in cuts so the state could weather a cash crisis this February.
The GOP plan included cuts to education totaling more than $10 billion in the next 18 months and about $6.5 billion largely by taking funds designated for children's and mental health programs. The proposal to take money from California's First 5 and Mental Health Services Act would require voter approval in the spring.
Republicans also proposed a 5 percent salary cut for lawmakers and are seeking to ask poor families enrolled in the state's welfare-to-work program to accept a 10 percent reduction.
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