A breakdown of Jerry Brown's budget
Voters will be asked to extend tax increases. UC, Cal State lose $500 million each. Health and welfare programs take deep cuts. Inmates will be shifted to local jails. Counties get more responsibility, more money.
Gov. Jerry Brown wants voters to renew $9 billion in higher sales, income and vehicle taxes in a special election this spring.
The Legislature passed the increases as part of the 2009 budget, and they will otherwise expire by the end of June. Lawmakers' approval would be needed to put the extension on the ballot.
Brown would ask voters to prolong a 0.25-percentage point surcharge on state income taxes, a 0.5-percentage-point increase in the vehicle license fee, a 1-cent increase in the state sales tax rate and a reduction in the tax credit for dependents, from $300 to $99.
In May 2009, voters rejected a two-year extension of the same taxes in a special election called byGov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Brown wants to ask that they reconsider.
The sales and vehicle taxes would approximately equal the cost of many services that