How Did California's Budget Mess Happen? | KALW

Mark Paul

June 17, 2009 |

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How did California's budget crisis happen? On the next Your Call, we continue our week long series about California's economic crisis by focusing on how we got here in the first place. The State has a 24 billion dollar budget deficit. What caused it? Overspending? The state's tax system? Prop 13? The 2/3 majority requirement?

Guests:
Lenny Goldberg, executive director of the California Tax Reform Association

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