Jerry Brown signs budget after making more cuts

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(06-30) 13:35 PDT Sacramento -- Gov. Jerry Brown today signed a budget that closes the state's $26.6 billion deficit, but first he used his line-item veto authority to cut millions more dollars in spending for courts, transportation and educational oversight programs.

In total, Brown penciled in an additional $23.8 million in cuts to the $86 billion spending plan. His signing of the budget for the fiscal year that starts Friday caps six months of budget fights and negotiations at the state Capitol.

The governor, who campaigned on a promise to change the partisan nature of Sacramento, never succeeded in convincing Republicans to support putting tax extensions and increases before voters, and ultimately had to rely on lawmakers from his own party to make deep spending cuts to social services, medical care for the poor, public universities, state parks, and other programs.

The budget also relies on $4 billion in new revenues state leaders are hoping will flow into state coffers in the coming months; if that money does not materialize, billions of dollars in additional cuts to health and human service programs, universities and public schools will be made.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/30/BAJE1K4SQ7.DTL

[DreamSmoker]

1. He is insane

Governor Brown also added 4 trailer Bills to this..
The Biggy is the Tax on Online Goods..
Emails went out to all the Amazon Distributors in California to inform them they would no longer be affiliated...

This Bozo is going to tax everything Californians have and enjoy..
I will bet he ain't finished trying to keep the retail tax height in place either...
TAX TAX TAX us to death...
No wonder all of the Manufacturing has left the State...
Now its the Retailers turn...
Whats left?????????????
US....

All this crap put on Californians backs..
Screw that.....Legalize Cannabis and all this could go away...

[julian09]

3. The article says he had to have deep cuts

because he couldn't get tax concessions from Gop. so cut cut cut.

[msongs]

2. he is required to have a balance budget. it is republican voters and pols that are insane nt

[YvonneCa]

5. I am so glad Jerry Brown is the one...

...leading on this. No one likes more taxes or cuts to valuable programs...probably least of all Gov. Brown.

[StarsInHerHair]

4. it's ok to tax the middle class & working poor but NOT the top 1%, wtf?