Economy
California needs to get back to work. Unemployment and under-employment are hurting our state's economy. This is one of the major forces in the foreclosure crisis. This also hurts the number one driver in the economy, the consumer. We need to create an economy that rewards job creators, that encourages small business.
It is all about building, hiring, and producing. We must create an environment that encourages new business and established businesses to expand and grow. The economy will bloom through job growth. Make it easy for corporations to build new facilities, to hire the best and the brightest, and produce goods that will be sold worldwide.
Infrastructure
California’s aging infrastructure is not keeping pace with the growth of our state. This is causing problems for public safety, wasting time and productivity in traffic backups, shortages in natural resources, and danger to average citizens.
Roads & Highways
- Growth should pay for growth.
- Traffic congestion is a state problem.
- Cut the red tape and fix the roads!
Budget
California needs to toughen up and balance the budget without hurting municipalities, public safety, or the economy. Each year the State must pass a budget by June 30th and it is the rare year that we actually pass the budget on time.
The budget is the primary instrument of policy on the state level. Yet each year the legislature is almost always late, or worse, they propose a budget that is over-optimistic that counts on revenues that will never materialize, counting on a proposed tax that the voters will surely reject, borrowing billions of dollars that will cost the state billions more in interest, new gimmicks and tricks that really disguise a poor budget. On average in the last few years, California budgets have lasted less than 8 months until a new budget tries to fix the flaws in the original budget.
Issues