California's day of reckoning: What's next for the Golden State?
Are tax increases inevitable given the failure of the budget-reform measures, or can the state shrink its way to a balanced budget? What's the future of the California GOP? UCLA's Daniel J.B. Mitchell and former Schwarzenegger financial director and U.S. representative Tom Campbell discuss fixing the state's financial mess.
May 22, 2009
Dust-Up
Stopping California's next meltdown
Today's topic: The failure of the propositions didn't eliminate the need for budget reform. What are the right steps for California to take to prevent the next fiscal meltdown? Daniel J.B. Mitchell and Tom Campbell finish their discussion on the state budget crisis.
12:57 PM PDT, May 21, 2009
Dust-Up
State GOP's future: resurgence or extinction?
Today's topic: What do Tuesday's results mean for the California GOP? Does the voters' rejection of the budget deal empower Republicans to be even less compromising, or does it encourage Democrats in Sacramento to marginalize and ignore the GOP by any means necessary?
11:31 AM PDT, May 20, 2009
Dust-Up
Cuts, tax increases or both: What's next for California?
Today's topic: Now that voters have rejected the budget reform propositions, are tax increases inevitable? Or could the state shrink its way to a balanced budget without making disastrous cuts?
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