If I may interject some sanity here, the con governors have destroyed California's finances and Ray Goon destroyed our sanitariums that kept people off the streets. And Arnie was a joke as well as pete"the toad" wilson.:
and yet wilson left office with a 13 billion dollar surplus.....what happened when davis took over?....
Here is the rest of that story:
He also raised car license fees and college tuition; by 1991, tuition fees at the
University of California rose by 40%, while they rose by 24% at
California State University.
[14] Additionally, he raised the income tax in the top bracket temporarily.
[14] However, by 1993, the snack tax was repealed by the Democratic state legislature and the sales tax increase expired.
[14] On April 26, 1991, Wilson proposed an increase in sales tax by 1 1/4 cents and state taxes by $6.7 billion (equivalent to $11.4 billion in 2019
[19]) as part of plan to reduce the state's budget deficit. The revenue gap had increased by $5 billion (equivalent to $8.53 billion in 2019
[19]) in the four months of his governorship.
[20] In response to the April 1991 proposal, the
Los Angeles Times wrote of Wilson,
He has done what has been asked of him, but thought near-impossible for any Republican centrist: constructing a revenue and spending plan that will hurt almost everyone and help almost no one, but that will also – for the first time in a long time – put the state on a sounder fiscal footing.
[21]
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On July 12, 1991, Wilson signed a bill mandating that parents neglecting paying for child support could warrant stiff fines and potential suspensions of business and professional licenses. The legislation was intended to address a rising cause of poverty among children and women in the state at a time when Californians collectively owed $2 billion (equivalent to $3.41 billion in 2019[19]) per year in unpaid child support[23]....
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