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Steinberg and Pérez met last night with the Republican governor and committed to regular negotiations that also include GOP lawmakers. That in itself was significant because Pérez had said he wanted to avoid private "Big Five" talks. The speaker also suggested Democrats do not plan to put up a budget bill for a vote that only has Democratic votes.
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Governor: “Terrible Cuts” There’s not much to say about the Governor’s plan other than the fact that it delivered – in spades – upon the promise of “absolutely terrible cuts” that would leave California ill prepared to face an increasingly competitive and more globalized economy and would leave the state’s families adrift in the toughest labor market in decades without a safety net.
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An audit of California’s recycling program – which is at the center of Assembly Democrats’ budget proposal – has found that the program routinely projects its revenue wrongly, has no system to document fraud and is slow to act when its recyclers underpay.
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Even if Schwarzenegger could fire every state employee under his control — roughly 230,000 — it still wouldn't balance the books.
"Fire every prison guard, every CHP officer, everyone who works at the DMV, everyone who works for the state parks system … and you're still not there," notes H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the state Finance Department.
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California's excise taxes on wine, beer and liquor remain a 1991 vintage, the last year the state hiked the price that producers pay on each gallon of alcohol.
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