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Largest Budget in CA History ‘Falls Short’: $2 billion in New Tax Increases and Lots of Pork

June 13, 2019 5:47 pmJune 14, 2019 1:41 pm

Thursday, the California State Legislature passed the Fiscal Year 2019-20 budget along party lines. At $215 billion, it is the largest budget in the history of the state due to new tax increases and hundreds of millions of last minute...

Record Education Pork Barrel Projects in California’s Largest State Budget

June 13, 2019 5:03 amJune 13, 2019 5:48 pm

California’s largest state budget ever — $214 billion — is larded with a record number of local pork-barrel projects injected by individual legislators, often in exchange for “horse trading” votes on passage of certain pieces of legislation. There is pork in every...

Record Pork Barrel Projects in California’s Largest State Budget in Many Years

June 12, 2019 10:35 amJune 13, 2019 6:32 am

Pork Barrel projects are a usual occurrence in the state budget, but California hasn’t see pork added on like this in years. To understand how government spending sprees occur every fiscal year, this is how spending takes place. Pork barrel...