SacBee — Opinion – Peter Schrag: Proposition 30: Can’t California do better?

If you’re old enough and have a perverse turn of mind, you may recall the National Lampoon cover from 1973 with the picture of a gun pointed at the head of a dog and the caption “If You Don’t Buy This Magazine We’ll Kill This Dog.”

That’s not quite like the “trigger” budget provisions attached to Gov. Jerry Brown’s Proposition 30, but close enough. If you, the voters, don’t pass this tax increase, the schools and community colleges will automatically lose $5.4 billion and the universities another $500 million.

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/10/26/4939777/proposition-30-cant-california.html#mi_rss=Opinion#storylink=cpy

via Peter Schrag: Proposition 30: Can’t California do better?.

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