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• Budget: Assembly Passes Overdue $99.1 Billion Budget in Marathon Session; Plan Papers Over Much of the Deficit.
  (Summer '03)
  By David R. Doerr and Ron Roach
• Assault on State's Taxpayers is the Wrong Answer.
  By Larry McCarthy
• 8% Solution for Tardy Budgeteers. (Spring '03)
  By Joel Fox
• Governor's Budget: Cuts, Tax Hikes and a Lot of Criticism.
  (Jan. '03)
  By The Cal-Tax Staff
• Budget Crisis Underscores Needed Reform. (Dec. '02)
  By Joe Canciamilla
• Taxpayer Perspectives on the $21 Billion State Budget Deficit.
  (Dec. '02)
  By Larry McCarthy
• 2002 California Budget Enacts Tax Law Changes. (Sept. '02)
  By Chris Micheli
• Candy Over Compromise, Act II. (Aug. '02)
  By Tim Leslie
• Cal-Tax: State Budget Process is Taxpayers' Nightmare. (Aug. '02)
  By Larry McCarthy
• Strong Economy is Overlooked Solution to Budget Shortfall.
  (July '02)
  By Allan Zaremberg
• Only Economic Growth Will Solve California’s Budgetary Woes.
  (June '02)
  By Jack M. Stewart
• It's the Spending, Stupid. (June '02)
  By Tom McClintock
• It's a Spending Crisis. (May '02)
  By Greg Turner
• Taxpayers Urge Common Sense. (Jan. '02)
  By Larry McCarthy
• Governor Proposes Tax Law Changes. (Jan. '02)
  By Chris Micheli
• Davis Budget Deficit Plan: No New Taxes Needed or Desired.
  (Jan. '02)
  By the Cal-Tax staff
• Budget Banks on Rebounding Economy to Avoid Draconian Cuts. (Jan. '02)
  By B. Timothy Gage
• State Budget Rises, Falls With Taxes Paid by the Rich. (Jan. '02) By Daniel Weintraub.
• Smart Response to the State Budget Deficit -- Faster Economic Recovery (Dec. '01)
  By Larry McCarthy
• Taxpayers' Perspective of the Budget Problem. (Dec. '01)
  By The Cal-Tax Staff
• Economics and Psychology Needed to Explain Taxpayer Behavior (Dec. '01)
  By David R. Doerr
• State's Budget Woes: Triple Whammy (Oct. '01)
  By David R. Doerr
• Candy Over Compromise (Sept. '01)
  By Tim Leslie
• The 2001-02 State Budget Helps Taxpayers (Sept. '01)
  By Tim Gage
• State Budget Lowers Farmers’ Taxes; Woos GOP Votes 
  (Sept. '01) By The Cal-Tax Staff
• Davis: Break Out the Umbrellas (June '01)
  By The Cal-Tax Staff
• The Governor's Budget (Feb. '01)
  By Tim Gage
• Modest Tax Cuts in New State Budget Proposal (Feb. '01)
  By The Cal-Tax Staff
• School Teachers Prevail in State Fiscal Free-for-All (Nov. '00)
  By David R. Doerr
• California Budget Tax Package - 2000-01 (Sept. '00)
  By David R. Doerr, Lisa Martin and Chris Micheli
• Exploring the Gann Limit: Then and Now (July '00)
  By Lisa Martin
• State Budget: Clearly, Education Comes First (June '00)
  By Tim Gage
• Revised Davis Budget Plan Deals with $12.3 Billion Surplus (June '00)
  By Ron Roach and Lisa Martin
• Spending Limits in Era of Record Revenues (June '00)
  By Stephen Kroes
• Fiscal Good Times, Taxes and a Split Roll? (May '00)
  Senator Steve Peace and Senator Jim Brulte 
  at the Cal-Tax Members Meeting
• A Perspective on California's Extraordinary Recent Revenue Performance (Apr. '00)
  By the Legislative Analyst's Office
• A Prosperous State with Another Huge Surplus (Feb. '00)
  By Lisa Martin and Ron Roach
• State Budget: Moving in the Right Direction (Feb. '00)
  By Larry McCarthy
• A Budget Perfect for the Times: Education is Foremost (Feb. '00)
  By Tim Gage
• California Budget Accord Provides Tax Relief (Sept. '99)
  By Chris Micheli
• A Budget of Higher Expectations (June '99)
  By Tim Gage
• Senate Republican Budget Plan: Rebuild Roads, Make College Affordable, Aid Local Government, Cut Taxes (June '99)
  By Ross Johnson
• Local Government Dollar Demand Bogs Down
  State-Local Fiscal Reform (June '99)
  By David R. Doerr
• Budget Surplus and the Economy (June '99)
  By Larry McCarthy
• Davis: NO on Higher Taxes, Period (May '99)
• A 1999-00 Budget for Higher (Education) Expectations (Feb. '99)
  By Ron Roach, Lisa Martin and Steve Kroes
• Budget Gridlock: Rival Views on 2/3 Vote -- The Case for a Simple Majority (Oct. '98)
  By Bob Monagan, Alan Post and Alex Pope
• Budget Gridlock: Rival Views on 2/3 Vote -- The Case for a Super Majority (Oct. '98)
  By Bill Leonard
• Legislature Passes Tax-Cutting Budget (Sept. '98)
  by Ron Roach
• VLF Debate: Junking the Car Tax (July '98)
  By Tom McClintock
• VLF Debate: Good News, Bad News (July '98)
  By Antonio R. Villaraigosa
• Where Did Windfall Come From? (June '98)
  By Larry McCarthy
• Setting California's Priorities - Better Schools, Lower Taxes
  (June '98)
  By Governor Pete Wilson
• Aggressive Action is Needed to Ensure Continued Economic Growth (Mar. '98)
  By Craig L. Brown
• Governor's Budget: 'Prudent Investments in the Future' (Feb. '98)
  By Ron Roach and Stephen Kroes
• California's Performance Budgeting Pilot Project: A View from the Legislature (Feb. '98)
  By Craig Cornett
• Downsizing the California Parks and Recreation Department:
  Benefits to Taxpayers and the Parks (Feb. '98)
  By Donald W. Murphy
• Budget Protects Taxpayers (Sept. '97)
  By Larry McCarthy
• Wilson Signs Budget with Strategic Vetoes (Sept. '97)
  By Ron Roach
• State Budget and Tax Relief Priorities (July '97)
  By Kirk West, William Campbell and Larry McCarthy
• If We Spend it All, a Deficit will Come (June '97)
  By Stephen Kroes
• May Budget Revise (June '97)
  By Ron Roach
• Governor's 1997-98 Budget: Economic Growth Fuels Revenue Growth (Feb. '97)
  By Stephen Kroes
• State Budget Builds on Success (Feb. '97)
  By Craig L. Brown
• New Dynamic Revenue Estimating Model: Not Quite What Anyone Expected (Feb. '97)
  By Martin Helmke
• Governor's 1996-97 Budget (February 1996)
  Cal-Tax's annual look at the governor's budget proposal.
• The California Budget: Setting Priorities (July '96)
  By Larry McCarthy
• Good News: Robust Economy; Bad News: Efforts to Spend More on Government (June '96)
  By Larry McCarthy
• Wilson's Budget is Welcome News for Taxpayers, Job-Seekers and Job-Creators (Jan. '96)
  By Larry McCarthy