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One severely broken part of California's state government is the tax code. It's antiquated and unreliable.
An e-mailer had it basically right the other day. He likened the public's mind-set about government to what Marine Col. Nathan Jessep (Jack Nicholson) barked at young Navy prosecutor Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) in the movie "A Few Good Men."
Here's Sacramento's problem: It desperately needs more tax money to provide the services the public wants. But the public doesn't trust Sacramento to spend any new money wisely.
We're skimming across flat water on blue Lake Tahoe, ringed by granite peaks still capped with winter snow. But a mile offshore we can't see squat.
Republicans holler a lot in the Capitol but aren't heard. They should be.
Here's an indication of how rotten Democratic-led gerrymandering is in California:
Motorists are getting gouged at the gas pump. Families are losing their homes. The war is a debacle and embarrassment.
A new reform group is proposing several fixes to Sacramento's red-ink budget writing. And one fix doesn't require a vote of the people or even legislators.
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass admits to being "strictly a city kid" who's basically clueless about California's most valuable resource: water.
Here's a quick and simple postmortem for Tuesday's scarcely noticed California primary.