March 20, 2008

Where the new spending has gone

Interesting chart from the Senate Republicans, as part of this presentation by their new leader, Dave Cogdill. One thing not reflected clearly here is the increase in payments to local governments to backfill for the car tax cut the governor implemented when he took office. I believe that money is buried within the nominal increase in K-12 spending because of the intereaction of the property tax, Prop. 98 and Prop1A. The backfill was about $2.7 billion in 03-04 and is now $6 billion.

Posted by dweintraub on March 20, 2008 10:41 AM