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日本では消費税素案が出されましたが、同じようにカリフォルニア州もその家計は火の車です。このブログでも何度かふれてきましたが、州の教育費はとくにat stakeです。どじょう首相と同じようにJerry Brown知事も予算案を発表しました。どこも「下山の思想」が必要なようです。ここのsquarelyはどのような意味でしょうか。カメ女さん、たまっています。（ゼミ生 Lbow-Shoulder）
Schools will be cut $4.8 billion if taxes don't pass, Gov. Jerry Brown says
The blueprint: Governor's plan assumes tax measure will pass on November ballot, creating $6.9 billion in new revenues for the state
By Steven Harmon
SACRAMENTO -- Putting schools and voters squarely in the middle of what could be an explosive battle over taxes, Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday laid out a fiscal blueprint that heavily relies on cash the state doesn't yet have.
Brown called for a budget that assumes $6.9 billion in new revenues from a tax measure he plans to take to voters in November. The governor says passage of the measure would wipe out a $9.2 billion deficit through mid-2013 and give schools $4.9 billion more than this fiscal year.
It was the opening act to what will be Brown's main political thrust this year: to persuade voters that without new revenues California's grim times will become even bleaker.
If voters reject the taxes, new cuts of $5.4 billion -- including the new funding for schools -- would be triggered, on top of the $4.2 billion in cuts that Brown has proposed for the next budget year, which begins July 1. Those potential cuts could reduce the school year by three weeks.
And whether the taxes pass or not, billions of dollars more will by slashed from welfare and other social service programs.
"It's not nice, we don't like it, but the economy and the tax statutes of California make just so much money available," Brown said at a news conference in which he hastily released his budget after a state employee inadvertently posted it on the Department of Finance's website. "It is a hardship and it is a burden, and I'd much rather it not happen. That's why I'm proposing (taxes) to try to mitigate these cuts."
