By JUDY LIN – 42 minutes ago
Gee, it only took 106 days.
Update 3:42 PM 2/19/2009
JOEL MATHIS: California's story is an old one: People want all the services that government provides. They just don't want to pay for it.
The Golden State hobbled itself in 1978 when voters passed Proposition 13, putting a hard cap on property taxes, a significant source of government revenue in most states. Which would've been fine, except that demand for government services kept growing by leaps and bounds.
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