Written by Brandon Lee Romo<\/p>\n
Those who tuned into Joe Biden\u2019s Congress speech were probably alarmed by the trillions of dollars he outlined towards new federal spending. However, Democrats in the California Legislature seem to want even more of it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n In advance of the Governor’s May Revise budget proposal, Assembly and Senate Democrats recently outlined their respective spending priorities. As the conflicting proposals demonstrate, the two houses are just competing to see who can spend more. California lawmakers currently expect a budget surplus of $15 to $20 billion. Speaker Rendon’s budget adviser, Jason Sisney, tweeted that this may be in addition to Newson’s $15 billion January increase. None of these estimates include the projected $26 billion in stimulus funds that California would receive under Biden.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Senate Democrats claimed they are \u201cembrac(ing) the once in-a-generation opportunity to make bold transformative progress for the people of California,\u201d in their \u201cBuild Back Boldly\u201d plan. But what is included in this plan just shows that these Democrats believe progress only means more massive spending increases:<\/span><\/p>\n When the final budget takes shape, California is on track to see the biggest one-time and long-term spending increases in recent memory. This is not only unfair to California residents who did not agree to increase their taxes for these measures but completely counterproductive as government-run programs have only shown to produce anything but success. Why would we want the entire state to be run like the DMV? <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Written by Brandon Lee Romo Those who tuned into Joe Biden\u2019s Congress speech were probably alarmed by the trillions of dollars he outlined towards new federal spending. However, Democrats in the California Legislature seem to want even more of it.\u00a0 In advance of the Governor’s May Revise budget proposal, Assembly and Senate Democrats recently outlined…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5977,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n\n