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August 17, 2003

A Ready-Made Budget For Would-Be Governors

A Ready-Made Budget For Would-Be Governors

Originally published in the Orange County Register, August 12, 2003.

Attention, candidates - whether frontrunners, longshots or fantasy play- ers. There's a detailed state budget proposal available that combines reform, restructuring and selected cuts in duplicative programs to promise a $1.5 billion surplus in 2005 - with no tax increases, no cuts in services deemed vital by most Californians, but with improvements in the business climate sufficient to permit the creation of an estimated 600,000 new jobs over two years.

In a recall election whose inescapable backdrop is a state spending crisis that the Legislature and governor punted into next year, the Citizens' Budget offers a benchmark by which candidate seriousness can be judged.

It was prepared jointly by the Performance Institute of San Diego, a think tank dedicated to advocating performance-based management practices for government agencies, and the free-market Reason Public Policy Institute in Los Angeles. We wrote about the proposal when it was released April 30, but it has become even more relevant in this season of recall. (The proposal is online at www.rppi.org/cacitizensbudget.html.)

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Learning Percentage: 35%

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