California Budget Deficit Has Swelled to $16 Billion - We Know How To Cut That Amount In One Year!

According to California Governor Jerry (Moonbeam) Brown, the budget deficit for the State is going to hit $16 Billion. 

We offer a few simple ways to cut that amount to $0 (or be in the positive) in just ONE year.

Being budget conscious is not rocket science.

Wake Up America

Illegal alien friendly - CA Governor, Jerry (Moonbeam) Brown

California's budget deficit has swelled to a projected $16 billion -- much larger than had been predicted just months ago -- and will force severe cuts to schools and public safety if voters fail to approve tax increases in November, Gov. Jerry Brown said Saturday.

The Democratic governor said the shortfall grew from $9.2 billion in January in part because tax collections have not come in as high as expected and the economy isn't growing as fast as hoped for. The deficit has also risen because lawsuits and federal requirements have blocked billions of dollars in state cuts.  

"This means we will have to go much farther and make cuts far greater than I asked for at the beginning of the year," Brown said in an online video. "But we can't fill this hole with cuts alone without doing severe damage to our schools. That's why I'm bypassing the gridlock and asking you, the people of California, to approve a plan that avoids cuts to schools and public safety."

Brown did not release details of the newly calculated deficit Saturday, but he is expected to lay out a revised spending plan Monday. The new plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1 hinges in large part on voters approving higher taxes.

The governor has said those tax increases are needed to help pull the state out of a crippling decade shaped by the collapse of the housing market and recession. Without them, he warned, public schools and colleges, and public safety, will suffer deeper cuts.

"What I'm proposing is not a panacea, but it goes a long way toward cleaning up the state's budget mess," Brown said.Read full article here

Here are our suggestions to fixing this problem in ONE year:

• Stop Supporting Illegal Aliens. 
• According to Robert Longley, US Government reporter for About.com "In hosting America's largest population of illegal immigrants, California bears a huge cost to provide basic human services for this fast growing, low-income segment of its population. A new study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) examines the costs of education, health care and incarceration of illegal aliens, and concludes that the costs to Californians is $10.5 billion per year."

• Tax Marijuana 
• It is estimated that if marijuana sales were properly taxed on a state level, a minimum of $1.5 Billion would be added to the State's coffers.

• Release all California inmates who are serving time for "marijuana possession only" sentences -even 3rd strike offenders.
• Approximately 60,000 inmates are serving time for marijuana offenses at a cost of $1.2 Billion per year

•  Stop arresting and prosecuting marijuana cases which net less than 1 pound in possession.
• Taxpayers annually spend between $7.5 billion and $10 billion arresting and prosecuting individuals for marijuana violations. Almost 90 percent of these arrests are for marijuana possession only. Let's assume we use a figure of just 50% of the lower amount to reduce. That comes to $3.75 Billion.

According to our figures that totals $17 Billion and change of taxpayer money the misguided State of California is wasting annually. Apply that to their deficit and Caleeforneeans are bucks up by year's end and rolling in it  from then on out.

That was easy wasn't it? 

Give us a few more minutes and we'll find another $50 Billion or so the corrupt pols in CA are wasting.