California is current balancing it's budget by borrowing. If they have
a law it's not very effective.
John Sessoms wrote:
> From: John Francis
>
>
>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:45:19PM +0800, David Savage wrote:
>>
>>>> At 01:38 PM 24/10/2007, John Francis wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 06:43:36AM +0800, David Savage wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I was just wondering last night after seeing the latest reports. Do
>>>>>>>> they (state land management department) do prescribed burning & cut
>>>>>>>> firebreaks earlier in the year before the start of the fire season?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Not a lot - that would take money, and California has budget issues.
>>>>>>
>>>> I wonder what the cost of battling out of control bush fires is doing to
>>>> the state budget?
>>>>
>> Look - you know, and I know, that money spent on preventative measures
>> saves many times the cost. But you can't persuade politicians to think
>> in the long term - they only care about dollars being spent today.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Probably one of those states that's required by law to balance the
> budget. Can't spend more than than you project to take in for taxes.
>
> Then you make it impossible for the legislature to raise revenue through
> reasonable taxes and you're left with what you can get from sales taxes
> and "education" lotteries.
>
> Put a cap on property taxes & income taxes; exempt all kinds of unearned
> income from taxation and then bitch at the politicians because they
> didn't have money in the budget to prevent these fires.
>
>
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