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  • Hi everyone, we cant manage our money ( i know are taxes are the highest) BUT WE NEED MORE!!!!! Please give us billions more so we can fund pensions for my buddies, oh wait i mean the schools. Oops?????????????????

  • Are you going to give your full support into the new murder investigation of Natalie Wood? Bearing in mind you were in office last time back in 81 when there was no investigation whatsoever only a total 'whitewash' and even the coroner conducting the inquest was FIRED for wanting a full investigation! Who on earth has the power to fire a coroner for doing his job correctly? In the memory of Natalie Wood and her family plus the millions of fans around the world please do your best this time!

  • OK .Lots of love in the comments below . California has a golden chance of taking the lead and being the cutting edge place it always has been In helping us get out of this mess of corporate takeover . Im behind you Gov.Brown . Peace from SF .

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  • because of treasonous roaches like you!

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  • Our state deserves better than having cowards and the US deserves better than cowards

  • Our state deserves better we can't have any cowards in Sacramento or Washington D.C. our country deserves better no cowards sovereignty read Teddy Roosevelt man in the ring or Woodrow Wilson state of the Union address better for California better energy policy no cowards allowed

  • Better energy policy and sovereignty especially in California

  • Our country and our state deserves better

  • California should be energy independent, with Hydrogen, futuristic energy sources, very advanced with engineers and students, young Californians just dissapointed immigration policy very irresponsible very dissapointing to say the least it's for the engineers and to better the future very dissapointed comprehensive immigration reform no sellouts or cowards

  • Hopefully things work out for this state for the better, population is a growing concern these new dream acts-obscene acts are unreasonable irresponsible immigration policies, California deserves better and the US deserves better was hoping for a better state really dissappointed for the future and the young Californians engineers who should be working and really disagree with these new acts very disappointing in Sacramento

  • One and done gone lowlives

  • Recall they are all low lives, impeachment, Sacramento, Washington they're all fired one and done, gone, out, Obscene Act, Audicity of Nope

  • YOU BROKE THE LAW. you signed the dream act giving illegals higher education and 14 million dollars in free money??? my family waited years to come here and spent thousands on lawyers and we all work hard and pay tax. we have no money and pay loans for our education. FOR WHAT? teachers cant get paid proper amounts and you do this? YOU BROKE THE LAW by signing this. we must recall this man.

  • Politicians are stupid fire them all Washington, Sacramento they're all freaks

  • I don't like Brown's past. But he is still the man. We all would've been royally screwed if Whitman won. This coming from someone on the conservative side btw.

  • If half of our leaders talked like Jerry Brown we wouldn't be in half the mess we are in.

  • Governor Brown you can do it!!

  • Make the rich pay more asshole. That's the gap. Cutting the programs that

    hurt young kids and schools is horrible. I want you to go after the rich too.

  • You stand strong Jerry. Keep cutting the fat!

    Do more to get us back in the manufacturing sector too. Our people need work. Tax imports double!!! What an idea made in california products no taxes. Made off shore products taxed double or more. Made in USA tax breaks. I love it!!!!!!!

  • I've got a better budget idea, fire all the legislators, let us vote for everything ourselves. If everyone votes, we don't need anyone in an office, no need for a building, computers, cars, pensions... I'm all for that. If you continue to skirt the harsh realities of being in office. I say, you are out, and the voting public takes over.

    It's only a matter of time before technology makes it a reality. Why wait?

    Come on Jerry don't be another Arnold.

  • brown I voted for you and unfortunately I think we need to go for the taxes. we cannot afford any more cuts in the police fire and education. those positions are a necessity. without police an adequate education we might as well be a third world. please protect the disabled their resources have been compromised

  • last November we were asked to vote on increased taxes, we said no by a huge margin. This budget is a non-starter. Our state is 8th in the world for GDP, we are taxed the most of all 50 states.

    The democrats have run the CA. congress for the last 30 years, so where's all the cash?!! (we know it went to union entitlements)

    We don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem... fix it !

    AA is for quitters right? NO MORE BOOZE FOR THE ALCHY's

  • I am a native Californian and a retired professional with an advanced degree. Speaking as an intelligent, well-educated, mature native of California, I am very grateful to have a governor in this state we can trust to do the right thing for the people, the environment, the economy and democracy. Unlike many other states, where governors are trying to dismantle and destroy people's rights, California has elected a responsible and courageous leader who supports democratic ideals. Thanks Governor.

  • @maryflo2 I agree 100%. I personally met Gov. Brown many years ago and was impressed with him. Since then, I have not always agreed with him, but this fiscal crisis has brought out the best in him. He speaks well, does his homework, and is probably incorruptible. In fact, I would prefer him over Obama for US president, due to his greater maturity and less egocentric personality. After several decades in Calif, I pulled my business out, but I wish the best for my many friends there. Go Jerry!

  • @maryflo2

    Amen to that! 

  • @maryflo2 You stated that you are a (professional with an advanced degree) So please tell me how you feel about Senate Bill SBX211? Please answer the following questions.

    1. a senate bill that addreses more than one issue.

    2. retro active imunity from prosecution.

    3. a senate bill that grants a specific group that is not given to eveyone.

    4. the bias and loss of due process (L.A. County is either a party to or has a financial intrest in most cases infront of these judges.

    Please answer

  • @danielcooper1000

    CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION

    ARTICLE 1 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS

    SEC. 9. A bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing

    the obligation of contracts may not be passed.

  • Do the right thing Governor Brown. Repeal SBX211; Stop the bribes to the judges of California. Los Angeles County judges are receiving $57,688.00 per year per judge. That is on top of the pay and benefits they already receive from the STATE.

    Sturgeon v Los Angels County declared those payments to be unconstitutional. Granting judges RETRO ACTIVE IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION for taking bribes under SBX211 is an assualt on the people of California. DO THE RIGHT THING.

    REPEAL SBX211

  • (SEE)

    HOW TO DISQUALIFY YOUR JUDGE

    The polititions wont help us. And trying to get a Judge to judge a Judge about illegal payments to Judges does not work. So we must do it ourselvs.

  • taxes to end all taxes.. its the infinate loop Brown has got himself believing in.. and it just doesn't work..

  • Sounds fair cut the deficit through a mixture of spending cuts and temporary tax rises.

  • Jerry Brown, you are a moron if you think that the good people of California are going to vote for higher taxes or to extend higher taxes. You need to cut pension benefits for all state workers and have them pay their fair share of health care costs and contribute a lot more to their pensions. You need to eliminate collective bargaining rights. Get a clue Jerry Brown!!! We are not paying anymore for the incompetence of California's legislature and your idiotic plans.

  • a balanced budget with tax increases doesn't make sense to Jerry.. well Jerry you can shove that idea where the sun doesn't shine.. go spend your own money.. if you want to keep these worthless programs..

  • California CANNOT pay the wages and pension benefits of unions workers.. until brown makes significant cuts there.. its all window dressing.. and he won't.. so its just one step closer to end end.. for California...

  • The Green bar for "like" represents the money those people(pigs) are ripping off the private employees. .

  • How can anyone that is NOT in any UNION,a Teacher,or Public Employee agree with this moron? He is not gonna touch any of those above mentioned. He is bought and paid or by them. He refuses to CUT their pay.And threatens other cuts but won't touch theirs. What don't you other guys get? Do research on it carefully.. Don't vote if you don't research first.

  • The Pot has obviously gotten to him Union WHORE. Not gonna touch their money are YOU? Or The fat teachers and Government workers .Go stick your taxes where the sun DON'T SHINE!.

  • Because the liberal idiots infesting California have their heads so far up their own asses. Those ignorant morons can't understand that California''s HORRIFIC money problems cannot be solved with money. It requires a seismic shift in how they operate and manage things. This will never happen and the people can't seem to grasp that. California's state constitution is a patchwork quilt of FAIL. Let it fail and start over- it will be cheaper in the long run.

  • @Muzzy337 true.. true..

  • the governor doesn't yet understand 'living within ones means'.. the taxpayer has.. why can't he?

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  • I don't believe that middle class people who vote for the Republican agenda realize just how much money the upper 1% of this state is not paying taxes for!! Billions if not trillions! Mega corporations and the uber rich need to contribute, and our financial industry needs regulation, but just like spoiled children, history has proven time and time again they will not do it themselves. As a Californian for over 60 years, if Jerry Brown has something to work with, problems will get solved.

  • @sbclear you're living that illusion that the rich 'could' pay for it all.. if they just wanted too.. problem is there aren't enough rich to take from.. and what's left.. back to screwing the middle class.. as always...

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  • @FreshPotatoMafia Do you REALLy believe this?

  • @huston3 No i do not believe this, its fact

  • Quote "I don't think it should be done to you without your voice." Unquote.

    RUNNING THE STATE INTO THE GROUND WAS DONE TO THE PEOPLE WITHOUT THEIR VOICE. When are YOU politicians going to accept the blame for the problems YOU created? STOP asking the people to bail you out. BAIL YOURSELVES OUT by acting like responsible adults and STOP SPENDING MONEY YOU DON'T HAVE. Even if the money fairy gave you $26 billion today, you would be in debt AGAIN tomorrow. You offer NO PLAN to fix the flaws.

  • Face it, Jerry. CA is BROKEN. If someone gave you $26 billion tomorrow, the state would be back in deep debt by the weekend! You offer NO plan to fix WHY things got broken in the first place. You want the people to pay for the screw ups of those running the state?? Bring back accountability! STOP SPENDING beyond the means of the people and there's a chance CA can be saved. Otherwise, declare bankruptcy and get it over with already. CA is a gigantic disgrace and a major embarrassment. FAILURE.

  • make the cuts, for those that want the taxes extend send in your check

  • test

  • extending the temporary taxes IS kicking the can down the road..Governor...a gimmick... and you know it...

  • @DominickJ Oh no, I am well read, it is ALL churches.  Any group of people following the genocidal, rape filled mythology set forth in the Christian scriptures is bound to its unethical teachings and subjected to its racism, bigotry and unhealthy ramblings. The BIBLE is the problem not the 'extremists', they just try to follow the scriptures tot he best of their abilities it is NOT their fault that christianity is a form of governance in direct conflict with our constitution and laws. Sorry...

  • Brown.. the union hack..

  • cuttimg the most vulnerable INSTEAD of dealing with union reform IS despicable Governor...

  • You union haters are so transparent! Unions don't have nearly the millions and millions the Koch Brothers, and others corporations like them, have to destroy our way of life. Duh! Yet, you "Pie Boys" love trying to turn Californians and the American people against each other. Governor Brown has done all he can with the ass***e republicans blocking the way. Time for the corporations to ACTUALLY PAY the statutory taxes.

  • @MegaPeoplePower - I am wondering how old are you? (not being negative, actually wanting to know). Unfortunately, while you may have some misguided belief that corporations control elections, you must go do your homework. Union funding FAR surpasses corporate contributions at both the state and federal level.

    Please do your homework so you don't appear to be uneducated.

  • @cprestonoc In the Mid Terms elections across the USA Wall Street donations were 30 to 1 over union donations.

  • If you look closely you can see the strings being pulled by his Big Union controllers.

  • The people already voted in 2009 on this issue Jerry, it was then sold as a 'temporary' tax increase known as Prop 1A. When will you politicians get the message that voters are sick of being taxed and regulated to death in this state?!!!

  • @thetawave48 KEEP ON TROLLING! TROLL.

  • @thetawaves48, Just because he walked with democraps, does not means he became one. and Democrats at that time were not the democraps they are now.

  • @thetawave48, oh!, by the way, If Cesar was still alive, and saw what the Democrat Politicians did to the Sacramento River, which put MIGRANT WORKERS out of work, I confident He agree.

  • @thetawaves48, Woo-Hoo, you have done your homework, but not enough to know this, What did he do besides the grapes issue? If you can guess this right, I`ll shut up. But if not, you have proven to me your ignorance the need for you to shut up. Here`s a hin`t, it`s trick question.

  • Governor, you are making the mistake of Schwarzenegger. He repeatedly sent measures to the special election ballot which the public clearly never intended to pass, wasting thousands of state dollars. We have already voted on the tax extensions; we voted them down. We knew then that the state was in dire financial straits, yet, the predominately democratic state legislature did not take the belt-tightening measures needed. They continued to spend, expecting that future income would provide.

  • So I was right! I don't have any issues with women, unless there like you! Nagging, overbearing and thinks her opinion is more important than everyone else's. I can also tell you like drama cause you've tried to force your opinion on everyone who watched this video. They write there's and you tell them there wrong.

  • @MrKeithStone Sounds like you hate your mother. Is that who taught you all your abusive language?

  • You liberals may feel free to keep sending your money to Sacramento after July 1.

    The problem with Liberal politics is that eventually you run out of other peoples money.

  • Let's play guess the troll! Are you Hillary Clinton? Get back under your bridge!

  • @thetawave48 stop sending me messages you TROLL. And I'm pretty sure @theTROLL48 is a girl, cause she has an opinion about your opinion and think she knows everything! She's been trolling on this video for a week and post a comment whenever you write your opinion!

  • @MrKeithStone So, now you don't like girls? What are you?

  • @MrKeithStone Only a juvenile bozo like you would criticize me for being a "girl." Grow up. Act your age, not your IQ.

  • let me know if you want to join up Jerry

  • i can provide troops equipment or whatever fire power you need, but here's the hard part, you need to appoint a meeting with me first before i can provide whatever you need ranging from galactic cruisers to ground equipment. i would rather go in the easy direction of getting the CCC back up at fort MacArthur. my girlfriend is available to run the base there.

  • I hear all these idiots on the left crying about cuts to education or the poor. How about cutting services that the government pays for with OUR tax money to the ILLEGAL ALIENS??? Or how about getting rid of all the STUPID boards and comissions in Sacramento, like the garbage borad?? Really, a garbage board???!!!

    But yet, all these lefty lunatics make it out to seem like it's the end of the world if taxes go down for EVERYBODY!!! You ppl really make me laugh!!!!!

  • @nextdrink45 You are a raving lunatic. Take your meds.

  • @thetawaves48 I present FACTS that apparently your retarded liberal mind cannot comprehend. Instead of debating me on the facts that I present, this is what you pathetically come up with?? Thanks for entertaining me moron.

  • @nextdrink45 You're the moron. Stupid jackass.

  • @nextdrink45 They only end up taxing us because everyone is too afraid of the rich and powerful. And sober up you idiot.

  • What we have here is a prime example of what happens when a state is run by one party for entirely too long!!! The DemoCRAPs have been in control of the legislature for 20+ years and look what it's gotten us. $26 BILLION in the hole!!!!!

    Between all the entitlement programs, an unchecked ILLEGAL ALIEN problem, and Grey Davis a DemoCRAP signing off on the LARGEST pension and pay increase to the unions in 1999!!! We are now left with this!! The state needs to CUT back down to size....period!

  • @nextdrink45 Pension money gets spent here in CA. Tax cuts to the wealthy get put in offshore accounts and spent on million dollar foreign yachts.

  • @thetawaves48 First, most pension money doesn't get spent here when the parasite collecting that pension money moves out of state when he/she retires. 2nd, how do you know that the wealthy do that with ALL their money?? You don't!! Besides, even if a person making say $50k per year is taxed at 10%, he/she still doesn't pay as much as a person making say $3 million a year getting taxed a say 7 or 6%. The wealthy pay enough in taxes!! On top of that.......

  • @nextdrink45 why in the hell would anyone want to be come successful and wealthy in this country when they know that all you pathetic, idiotic libs want to take all their money in the form of taxes??!! It's no wonder why they put a lot of their money where you parasites can't touch it!!!!

    Now post something stupid regarding my post so I can not only laugh at you, but come back with more facts!

  • @nextdrink45 I am having a laugh every time you post. Thanks for the entertainment, clown!

  • @nextdrink45 You get your facts from the liars toilet - Fox News.

  • @nextdrink45 You don't know shit.

  • @thetawaves48 HAHAHAHAHAHA....figures you stupid ass liberal RETARD!

  • @nextdrink45 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH OMG THIS IS SO MUCH FUN WATCHING YOU GET SO UPSET. ARE YOU PISSING YOURSELF YET?

  • @nextdrink45 Oh, pity the wealthy!

  • Well people, you have the Republicans to thank for you getting MORE money in your own pocket come July 1st when these stupidly high taxes go back DOWN!!!! Your state sales tax is going DOWN!!!! You car tax is going DOWN!!! Your child dependency credit is going back UP to $300 per kid!!!!!

    This government already gets enough money!!!! The DemoCRAPs need to learn how to live within their means and NOT spend more money than they take in!!!!!

    Thank a Republican for YOUR money!!!!

  • @nextdrink45 So you think that tax returns are not spending? Maybe you should get your grandmother to send back her social security check. My taxes pay her every month.

  • @thetawaves48 I'd love to get my grandmother to send back her check, but she's DEAD you all assuming pathetic liberal retard!!!

    Sorry, but I like the fact that I'm going to see MORE of MY money come July 1st!!! If you want to keep giving your money to the government, then send them a check everytime you get paid....how's that??

  • @nextdrink45 SHE PROBABLY DIED LAUGHING AT YOU.

  • @thetawaves48 You my friend are a shining example of just how PATHETIC the liberal left really is!!!

  • @thetawaves48, Are you poor? or have you ever been poor or came from a poor background? I have, and I chose NOT to stay in a poor situation. I grew up in East LA and Latino, and now have made something of myself, because someone said I can without Government help. If you can identify with my past, then you can speak. If not, It`s wise to stay quiet!

  • @ModernDayPsalmist I come from a coal miners life in Appalachia that makes your life look like a flower garden.

  • @thetawaves48 you`ve heard of Cesar Ernesto Chavez, but you don`t know about the man. so, you need to do your homework. You need to be quiet while you`re ahead, You have lived where I lived and be lucky to still exist if you lived there. You`re going to get schooled by a Latino who know alot more than what you`ll ever know, So be quiet while you`re still ahead.

  • @ModernDayPsalmist Cesar Chavez was not a republican.

  • @ModernDayPsalmist Cesar Chavez was a democrat. He and Jerry Brown MARCHED together, along with another famous democrat, Robert Kennedy.

  • @thetawaves48 Cesar Chavez was against illegal immigration. It's funny how that fact seems to escape the Liberals that want to wrap themselves in his history.

  • @hdtvcamera1 But he was not against labor unions.

  • At least I have heard of Caesar Chavez. Do your homework.

  • @ModernDayPsalmist Cesar Chavez would be ashamed of you.

  • ..and Brown's 'Gimmick' is to extend the tax increases.. The unions must be dealt with ..NOW.. not 5 years from now.. NOW

  • California will end up like Detroit Michigan.. except on a much much larger scale...

  • You gonna close the border and deal with all the illegal Immigrants and their anchor babies???

  • Lets just keep on cutting the spending of the state of California, starting with the special interest groups and government pensions. The pensions that state employees get for their labor are unheard of in the private sector. Why should they get these exorbitant pensions when the rest of us who are working for our money and retirement don't get them. Also don't raise taxes, 40% of the population aren't paying taxes anyways and so you'll just taking away more money from the rest of us 60%.

  • @charlotteemilyolsen the state workers put their own money into those pensions, that money doesn't belong to the taxpayer.

    It's THEIR money.

  • @FancyPantsElitist Wrongo Bongo, from my understanding as an employee of the State of California, the state workers put a small percentage of money in, and the state puts the rest. That money comes from the taxpayers, in fact their entire pay comes from the taxpayers. Why do State Employyes think they are entitiled to a Pension, when most private sector employees have to pay thier own. If they are lucky, their employeer may contribute additional funds. UNIONS be the heros here, no TAXES

  • @charlotteemilyolsen The unions are for everyone. We should all belong to unions.

  • @thetawaves48 You're an idiot... Unions make America weak.

  • Hitler knew how to handle people who mooched off the system. He just went into the insane asylums and state hospitals and killed the suckers. If they had any children, just get rid of them bastards, too.

  • @thetawaves48 I hope you guys know I was being facetious. When reason doesn't work, what do you do?

  • No Jerry, the unions have got you in their back pocket.. and they know you'll never do anything to take anything away from them...

  • Its easier said than done to have the people vote, I'm not going to risk having people without any political knowledge making judgments based on what should come out of my pockets. Therefore, I'm not in favor of having it be up to the people. I'm siding with the Republican party on this one. I wonder sometimes, if these people arguing over this video are even registered voters or have any political knowledge at all.

  • @judyluvsnoel, Do the math on this. rich people, including Politicians, are only 10% of the revenue of this State. The problem is that we got poor people leaching off THE SYSTEM. The State spending is 40% more than the revenue. So how is 10% going to increase a 40% deficit?

  • @ModernDayPsalmist Right! Put all the poor people out on the street, and if they get in our way, just euthanize them.

  • @thetawaves48 This people is a PRIME example of the American Left these days!!! NOTHING but assumptions made by them on a little snipet of something that was said.

    Instead of debating what the previous person said, this lunatic springs in to lefty action with the whole poor person getting in your way thing.

    Another shining example of a lefty LUNATIC!!!!!

  • @nextdrink45 Cesar Chavez was a leftist, so why aren't you arguing with ModernDayPsalmist?

  • Governor.  I hope you can see how fruitless this was. People are simply arguing amongst themselves which is doing nobody any good. It is time for you and the legislature to do what we are paying you to do. Cut back in your spending, cut back unnecessary programs and be a little more frugal. How hard can that be - we the people have.

  • @thetawave48 - are you joking? How ridiculous. It is time for the "poor" on welfare to go to work.Flipping burgers pays good money if nothing else. We are in a crisis Do you have any idea how many people are on disability that could be working, but they are just milking the system? . Everyone needs to give a little and higher taxes to the middle class is not the answer. This include teachers having to pay towards their pensions and their medical benefits. Not by raising taxes

  • @ccaton01 Teachers already do pay for their pensions.

  • @thetawave48 speak for yourself! You and ScullysBaby are the only ones commenting on everyone else's opinion. Let the people speak and leave it at that. TROLL

  • @MrKeithStone I don't have to follow your orders. This site allows for replies. Take it up with YouTube.

  • The Gov. has some tough choices to make for sure due to all the B.S. that has been going on in the last 8 years. I say vote for the higher taxes for now and maybe reaudit these when possible, most won't feel this small tax pinch but if Jerry has to cut the budget without the tax increase this will hurt most that live in California! It's time to buckle down and face the music California! Jus be happy I'm not your Governor I'd first kick all the illegals out of the state!

  • This is BS from Gov. Brown; he is trying to pass the buck for what he and legislature were elected to do. The present problem was caused by the previous legislatures’ failure to deal with their own fiscal ineptness. The current legislature, and Governor, should deal with it (WHICH IS THEIR JOB!) vice trying to pass it off to the voters for political cover. If they can’t, they should resign and hold a special election to replace them with someone who has the brass tacks to do the job. DO YOUR JOB

  • California only knows how to bleed the people that have a little money. We have two California's, 1-the have's and 2- the have nots. The Haves are the government employees that get paid double what private sectors jobs pay and have 100% free healthcare. The have Not are the rest of us who pay their salaries.They believe they have a right to fantastic wages for little work. The rest of us have to say NO MORE!!!

  • @combatmarineofpain The "haves" are the government employees? What planet are you on? Guess which party the thieves on Wall Street vote for? Do you think the bank VPs and CEOs and hedge fund managers who stole $billions are Democrats? Get real.

  • @thetawaves48 Hey lefty lunatic!!!! He wasn't talking about the reccession of America and how it started. He was talking about how the public employee union suck this state dry!!! Thanks to that IDIOT Grey Davis who just happened to sign onto the LARGEST pay, pension, and HC deal to the unions back in 1999!!! Which by the way, is the ticking time bomb that's going off in front of us 10+ years later!!!

  • @nextdrink45 All of the money in pensions get spent in CA, not in offshore accounts that rich republicans have to avoid taxes.

  • Opening it up to the people, is easier said than done. The average American, aren't even registered to vote. They don't have the political knowledge to vote. It ruins it for all legitimate voters out there, but we can't risk this factor in the hands of liberal voters. Southern California and the bay area are dominated by Liberals and it also dominates the Inland Empire. I fear that if it is open up, the Liberal voters will vote to increase tax to benefit public programs that they live off of.

  • @jenzchck

    In continuation, I'm a Political Science student. I only ask for whoever is reading this to consider that fact that the decisions we are making will impact our children in the future.

    Take in consideration, having the ballot be opened to the people. Let your Representatives representing your district know how your local city/ district feel about this.

    Some decisions are reversible, but sadly, this decision that will be made is not reversible to improvise the future.

  • @jenzchck So go live in Idaho.

  • the 'strip the rich' crowd doesn't seem to comprehend that if you took all their money the problems remain.. and for you socialists the soviets tried it.. and it didn't work..

  • @rrmoh None of the rich will miss any meals, I guarantee it.

  • @thetawaves48 ..and all the rich are republican.. right?.. you've been brainwashed by rich democrats into believing they are your savior.. they're not..

  • Hi @decidedvoter08. The problem is the "temporary" tax increase extension is for 5 years but the budget is for 1 year. What happens in years 2-5? The issue that is not being addressed is spending reforms.

  • I would like the opportunity to vote on the tax extension. I am willing to continue to pay the taxes I've gotten used to and preserve our public schools. Good Education is the future of this once Golden State.

  • "Drastic" cuts?! Your precious high taxes are just as "drastic" & the cause of so many businesses & jobs fleeing the state. We (the voters) already spoke loud & clear when we destroyed the Prop 1A tax increase after you screwed us with the largest tax increase in CA history during a recession. Screw your taxes!

  • @wgmyler No, it was Ronald Reagan who increased taxes the most. He just shifted the burden from the wealthy to US.

  • what part of 'temporary taxes' doesn't Jerry Brown understand? ...TEMPORARY.. PERIOD

  • What we have here is a prime example of what happens when a state is run by one party for entirely too long!!! The DemoCRAPs have been in control of the legislature for 20+ years and look what it's gotten us. $26 BILLION in the hole!!!!!

    Between all the entitlement programs, an unchecked ILLEGAL ALIEN problem, and Grey Davis a DemoCRAP signing off on the LARGEST pension and pay increase to the unions in 1999!!! We are now left with this!! The state needs to CUT back down to size....period!

  • Hi @ScullyBaby - I voted for Barack Obama. Yeah, I guess that makes me a right wing nut. I get my news from LA Times. According to you that makes LA Times a conservative newspaper (LOL). Why the personal insults @ScullyBaby? Is that the union way? Debate my views any time, but don't stoop so low as to insult me. Insulting me is not going to make me change my mind, but a thoughtful debate on the pros/cons of union may.

  • That's what wrong with left wing extremest they are worst than terrorist! They think there opinion is final and if they speak up everyone else will shut up. @skullysbaby thinks he is smarter than everyone else, using phrases like "battle of wits". You stole that from Rush Limbough isn't that sacrilege on the left? That's a No, No troll! Say ten hail Obama's then you can troll again! All you know is what you heard on CNN so stop preaching! Moldersbaby or whatever your name was!

  • You know what they say about opinions, don't you skullysbaby? There like assholes everyone has one. So who ate you to tell other people that there opinion is wrong and yours is right? I think that make you the asshole! Now go watch some X-files and stop trolling! TROLL!

  • @MrKeithStone You have serious insecurity issues. No one is keeping you from expressing your opinion. And no except you is taking a know-it-all attitude but YOU!.

  • I have a feeling @ScullysBaby is thetawave another idiot who thinks he knows everything, so he comments on everyone else's opinion. Democrats and dumb teenagers think, they and there opinions are more important than everyone else's!

  • @MrKeithStone I am not ScullysBaby.

  • @SNAKEnBAKEit Actually . . . they were voted in. The special election would be to extend current tax rates and not raise them. Please learn your facts and stop listening to right wing radio and Fox News.