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Budget

• Newest State Budget Clash Will Be Bloody by Dan Walters from the Sacramento Bee, November 20, 2009.
• Legislature Proposes Increases in Spending by Several Billion After Defeat of May Propositions (June '09)
• Beware of the Sacramento Jargon (October '07)
• Budget "Cuts" -- The Sacramento View and Taxpayer Perspective. (January '07)
• California's Structural Budget Deficit: Eliminate Massive Fraud and Waste. March 2006
• Bad Moves, Not Economy, Behind Busted State Budgets: Governors, Legislators Failed to Act Quickly When Boom Began to Fade, Analysis Finds by Paul Overberg from USA Today, June 23, 2003.
• New Fees May Skirt Tax Vote by Evan Halper from the Los Angeles Times, April 23, 2003.
• Swarm of State Fees Proposed. Consumers to Feel Sting of Attempt to Reduce Huge Deficit by Robert Salladay from the San Francisco Chronicle, April 13, 2003.
• A High Price for Delay on Budget by Evan Halper and Jeffrey L. Rabin from the Los Angeles Times, March 20, 2003.
• We Will Run Out of Cash by Timm Herdt from the Ventura County Star, March 19, 2003.
• 8% Solution for Tardy Budgeteers. (Spring '03)
  By Joel Fox
• Budget Balanced on Faulty Figures by Jeffrey L. Rabin from the Los Angeles Times, February 23, 2003.
• Boom and Bust by John Hill from the Sacramento Bee, December 30, 2002.
• Better Business Climate will Aid State's Woes by State Senator Chuck Poochigian from the Fresno Bee, December 10, 2002.
• Budget Crisis Underscores Needed Reform. (December '02)
  By Joe Canciamilla
• Taxpayer Perspectives on the $21 Billion State Budget Deficit. (December '02)
  By Larry McCarthy
• State Spent Its Way Into Budget Crisis. October 29, 2002
  By Jeffrey L. Rabin
• No Budget Relief Ahead, State Senate Leader Says. September 4, 2002
  San Diego Union-Tribune
• Constitutional Amendments Are Needed To Derail 'Midnight Specials' that Abuse the Legislative Process (August '02)
  By Russ Bogh
• Cal-Tax: State Budget Process is Taxpayers' Nightmare. (August '02)
  By Larry McCarthy
• Strong Economy is Overlooked Solution to Budget Shortfall. (July '02)
  By Allan Zaremberg
• Chris Rizo: Tax Hikes Could Delay Recovery (June 5, 2002)
• Only Economic Growth Will Solve California's Budgetary Woes. (June '02)
  By Jack M. Stewart

• Comments from Cal-Tax
  • Zero Base Budgeting
    Here is a brief explanation of what zero base budgeting is.

• State Budget Rises, Falls With Taxes Paid by the Rich. (January '02)
  By Daniel Weintraub.
• Smart Response to the State Budget Deficit -- Faster Economic Recovery (December '01)
  By Larry McCarthy
• Economics and Psychology Needed to Explain Taxpayer Behavior (December '01)
  By David R. Doerr
• State's Budget Woes: Triple Whammy (October '01)
  By David R. Doerr
• 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 (April '00)
  By the Legislative Analyst's Office
• A Prosperous State with Another Huge Surplus (February '00)
  By Lisa Martin and Ron Roach
• State Budget: Moving in the Right Direction (February '00)
  By Larry McCarthy
• Budget Surplus and the Economy (June '99)
  By Larry McCarthy
• Budget Gridlock: Rival Views on 2/3 Vote -- The Case for a Simple Majority (October '98)
  By Bob Monagan, Alan Post and Alex Pope
• Budget Gridlock: Rival Views on 2/3 Vote -- The Case for a Super Majority (October '98)
  By Bill Leonard
• 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
• California's Performance Budgeting Pilot Project: A View from the Legislature (February '98)
  By Craig Cornett
• New Dynamic Revenue Estimating Model: Not Quite What Anyone Expected (February '97)
  By Martin Helmke
• Governor's 1996-97 Budget (February 1996)
  Cal-Tax's annual look at the governor's budget proposal.

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