california budget
question: why is the california budget in the toilet?
partial answer: because we as voters passed 99.44% of all bond issue propositions on every ballot for the past decade.
bonds are loans. we have to pay that money back. with interest. lots! of interest. yeah, sure we want clean water, better schools, better roads, and mass transit. putting these things on the state credit card when we have a billion dollar surplus is a bad idea. we should just use the surplus for these things. putting them on the card when we have a billion dollar deficit is an even worse idea because we can't afford them.
vote no on all bonds and no on all loans. at least read the fine print. often times it's someone's pork barrel packaged all pretty.