Jerry Brown: Cuts To Education Will Continue
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Faced with a $28.1 billion deficit for the next fiscal year, Brown is trying to give a crash-course to California voters about how disastrous that figure really is.
The self-described “happy warrior” appears headed down a path of asking voters to extend a handful of temporary tax increases, to raise other taxes and to accept more control over local affairs because cutting 20 to 25 percent from the budgets of state agencies won't alone solve the mess.
“What Jerry is trying to do is getting you to the place where you don't have to deal with the brunt of cash deferrals over and over,” State Controller John Chiang told a group of about