Brown proposes $4.2 billion in cuts to California budget
By Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee
Gov. Jerry Brown proposed Thursday slashing nearly $1.4 billion in welfare and child care aid for the poor while holding voters liable for $5 billion in education funding with a November tax measure.
The Democratic governor announced his January budget plan this afternoon after his proposal was inadvertently leaked on his Department of Finance website. He estimates the state faces a $9.2 billion general fund deficit through June 2013, which he proposes to bridge with mostly cuts and taxes.
Brown will ask voters to pass a $6.9 billion ballot measure in November that raises taxes on sales and income starting with single filers earning $250,000 a year.
“With the tax program, we will eliminate the budget deficit finally, after years of kicking the can down the road,” Brown said.
With or without the taxes, Brown is calling for a base level of $4.2 billion in cuts, including the $946 million to welfare-to-work and $446 million to subsidized child care. He also would save $842 million in Medi-Cal by moving recipients into managed care plans.
BS, get back to me when they start talking about cutting back the pension retirement multiplier to two instead of three times years worked.
Same old BS first they are going to eliminate the CCC now their building tens of millions of dollars worth of dorms in Myers. Going to close state parks but have the money to move the golf course.
Never hear them talk about cutting back on the green pigs who kill the economy.
Brown cuts child care aid and leaves the over fed government employees pay and pensions off the table….
It shows where a true libs heart is don’t it?
Child hater liberals!
Brown also reduced illegal alien entitlements by eight billion dollars. Not one mention of it in the article.
Shame, shame.
So, is cutting aid to illegal immigrants a good thing or a bad thing? It sounds like a good thing to me. Good for Mr. Brown. Finally, a little reality. The outrageous state pensions are next.