On January 10th, Gov. Brown introduced his budget proposal which includes a solution to balance the 25-28 billion dollar state deficit. His proposal includes massive cuts to public services, a reconstruction of state services and an extension of the temporary tax increases. Tax increase extensions will have to be approved by the voters who already turned down a similar proposal last year at the ballot. His proposed budget cuts will have to be approved by the state legislature.
Just to give you an idea how difficult it is to solve the budget crisis, the Los Angeles Times has created an interactive budget balancer. Try your hand at balancing our state budget! How did you do? Leave your comments below.
Here is Gov. Brown’s budget proposal overview. What do you think?
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