Try Your Hand at Balancing the CA Budget
So California’s budget woes have been going on for months now but the time for action is quickly growing near. Unfortunately, while everyone agrees that action is necessary, nobody can agree on what those actions should be. We’ve got a 26.3 Billion dollar gap still to close and accomplishing that in a bi-partisan way is looking to be nearly impossible. Of course listening to statements from either side makes it seem so easy, “Just cut out our wasteful spending already!” or “Just raise taxes on the rich to where they belong!”. But when you find out that if we were to, for example, cut all state funding for the UCs and CSUs it would still only save us 1.5 Billion or that raising corporate income taxes would only net us 430 million, it starts to look a little more complex. Obviously a mixed approach will be necessary, at least until the economy begins to recover and the state’s income returns to normal levels.
The LA times has a very interesting little program on its website that allows you to try your hand at solving CA’s budget crisis. It can be found here:
You Balance the Budget – LA Times
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