Texas baseball coach doesn't recruit in Colorado

Say WHAT?!?!?!

 

It was an email.

 

Sorry. I meant it in the sense that they are required to have balanced budgets. Debt is issued for capital expenditures, not yearly budget shortfalls, like the feds. To the extent states play games with budgets, they are going to take the pot revenue rather than use some budget trick.

 

California loves that kind of shell game. Almost any tax increase has to go through a referendum. The only way to get a tax referendum passed is to promise the voters it's going to a very specific cause they like.

Referendum A: $100,000 in tax increases for a statue of Gov. Rick Stain, to be placed outside his private residence
Voters: Fuck off!

Referendum B: $100,000 in tax increases earmarked specifically for schools
Voters: Woohoo!
*Gov. Rick Stain then lowers the school budget by $100,000, adds $100,000 to the Statue of Him budget, deposits the $100,000 from the referendum to make up the difference*

 

Sadly true and well stated.

 

It's exactly the point I was thinking. Thanks.

Any Californians remember the ads for the California State Lottery? It's all about the schools!!!!

 

Didn't they just pass an unpopular gas tax that's going through this process now?
The tax money was supposed to go to road projects. However, there are so many people in Southern California -- including Los Angeles' moronic mayor who is laughably trying to start a presidential campaign -- that are actively trying to remove roads and lanes instead of adding them that there is no chance of it ever going toward that. Any roads that actually do get built or fixed are out in the boonies instead of high-traffic areas.

 

Maybe public transit, which discourages California-style sprawl, will get funding that formerly went to building characterless concrete bridges.

 

High speed rail!

 

If by high-speed rail you mean a subway line that moves people through LA efficiently, and those commuters can have back their eight hours a day or whatever is spent sitting on the 405, sure.

 

Biggest transit flustercluck since the Springfield Monorail.

 

No, I'm talking about the never-ending, always escalating in cost quest for a high speed rail line from San Diego to San Francisco. The one the state has poured billions of dollars into and been talking about for decades, yet still has never had one mile of track to show for it. The one they still keep pouring money down the hole for, for some God unknown reason. The one that recently had its estimated cost quadruple to up around $40 billion -- before they even begin construction that will require several lengthy tunnels through the mountains.
THAT high speed rail.