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California budget mess: Where did our money go?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Good graph at this URL http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_11649004?nclick_check=1 California budget mess: Where did our money go? By Paul Rogers and Leigh Poitinger Mercury News Posted: 02/08/2009 California is broke. But lost in the day-to-day drama over IOUs, furloughs and huge deficits is a basic question many Californians might be asking: Where has all our money gone? A Mercury News analysis of state spending since Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took office in late 2003 found that he and the Democratic-controlled Legislature have spent money well beyond the rate of inflation and California's population growth ? $10.2 billion more. Yet the programs that received most of that money are priorities that Californians broadly support or have demanded at the ballot box: tougher prison sentences for criminals, health care for uninsured children and an aging population, and a cut in the "car tax" that they pay every year to register their vehicles...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 08, 2009 (boomark / email).