{"id":8184,"date":"2011-01-04T18:03:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T23:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8184"},"modified":"2011-01-04T18:04:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T23:04:23","slug":"huffpo-hating-on-jerry-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8184\/huffpo-hating-on-jerry-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"HuffPo Hating on Jerry Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a blogger at the <em>Huffington Post<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/bob-samuels\/terminator-ii-jerry-brown_b_804396.html\" target=\"_blank\">California just inaugurated a \u201cRight-Wing Republican\u201d<\/a> as governor.\u00a0 He\u2019s referring to Jerry Brown, aka \u2018Governor Moonbeam\u2019 and the man proposing sharp cuts, tax increases, and budget raids to balance the state\u2019s deficit-ridden balance sheet.\u00a0\u00a0 In <em>HuffPo<\/em> world, that combination merits being tarred and feathered as the second coming of another rock-ribbed fiscal conservative, outgoing governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.<\/p>\n<p>Please.\u00a0 If Brown\u2019s budget proposal looks suspiciously similar to Schwarzenegger\u2019s it\u2019s because there are precious few options for governors of any party to try.\u00a0 Sure, nobody thinks they\u2019ll actually solve the problems, but that\u2019s because actually solving California\u2019s budget woes will take some serious undoing of cherished political prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans want to hang onto the 2\/3 requirement for passing a budget and maintaining Prop. 13\u2019s cap on property taxes, while Democrats act as though rich (i.e. working) people will pay any price to live within a 100 miles of a beach and subsidize a green welfare state.\u00a0 Neither party is serious about making <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/joelkotkin\/2011\/01\/03\/californias-third-brown-era\/?boxes=opinionschannellatest\" target=\"_blank\">investments in the state\u2019s infrastructure<\/a> (e.g. road, power, and water grids), a precondition for economic and social improvement.<\/p>\n<p>The only way California heals its self-inflicted budget wounds is if it repeals all of the constitutional amendments mandating budget appropriations.\u00a0 \u00a0To do that, Republicans will likely have to agree to end Prop. 13\u2019s property cap, a move that would likely increase property taxes.\u00a0 Though unpalatable to many, removing the cap would return discretion to counties and cities (historically better than Sacramento at balancing budgets) while giving voters an outlet for their displeasure with the next Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>None of this will be easy or popular.\u00a0 Then again, neither is California politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a blogger at the Huffington Post California just inaugurated a \u201cRight-Wing Republican\u201d as governor.\u00a0 He\u2019s referring to Jerry Brown, aka \u2018Governor Moonbeam\u2019 and the man proposing sharp cuts, tax increases, and budget raids to balance the state\u2019s deficit-ridden balance sheet.\u00a0\u00a0 In HuffPo world, that combination merits being tarred and feathered as the second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[647,70,299,59,1890,2035,71],"class_list":["post-8184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-arnold-schwarzenegger","tag-budget","tag-california","tag-deficit","tag-huffington-post","tag-jerry-brown","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8184"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8189,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184\/revisions\/8189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}