California controller to suspend tax refunds, welfare checks, student grants

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John Chiang announces that his office will suspend $3.7 billion in payments owed to Californians starting Feb. 1, because with no budget in place the state lacks sufficient cash to pay its bills.

By Evan Halper and Patrick McGreevy
January 17, 2009

Reporting from Sacramento -- The state will suspend tax refunds, welfare checks, student grants and other payments owed to Californians starting Feb. 1, Controller John Chiang announced Friday.

Chiang said he had no choice but to stop making some $3.7 billion in payments in the absence of action by the governor and lawmakers to close the state's nearly $42-billion budget deficit. More than half of those payments are tax refunds.

 

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[garbage can]

We need to recall the Governor like we did his predecessor .

Is Arnie a liberal disguised as a Republican?

 

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[Wok]

We elected the Jerkinator because he drives a neat Hummer.

 

[thør]

I know some flush Alaskans heading to vacation in CA next week. The bar bill might might offset the deficit.

 

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[garbage can]

He's more liberal than conservative. He believes in reaching across the isle to embrace the principles of his Democrat adversaries while sacrificing those of his party and those he pretends to hold in public...he's an ignorant clown in the mold of John McCain.

I understand.

 

[The_Trouvere]

He's more liberal than conservative. He believes in reaching across the isle to embrace the principles of his Democrat adversaries while sacrificing those of his party and those he pretends to hold in public...he's an ignorant clown in the mold of John McCain.

Fortunately, politicians as far to the right as you are cannot be elected.

 

[miles]

Get ready, kiddies. This could be a preview.

 

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[Ham Murabi]

Fortunately, politicians as far to the right as you are cannot be elected.

I suspect if the Repulicans can round up someone as honestly conservative as Reagan we'll be inaugurating a new president in four years.

 

[Monkey_Face]

That does it, I'm not watching Terminator 5.

 

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Those who do manage to get elected can't govern, because people like you who elect them shouldn't be voting in the first place. We need to pay some folks to stay home. I'm not a politician.

Hey, Vman, are the rioting peaceniks in California, Republican or Democrat?

I mean the ones destroying property, smashing windows etc.

 

[Rowdy_Y]

Arnold should have enacted his plan to put all state workers on min. wage.

 

[Shagly]

That sounds good to me but what about the cost of the prisons?

 

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[Rowdy_Y]

That sounds good to me but what about the cost of the prisons?

The prison system is retarded. Society should not pay to keep inmates incarcerated, prisoners should be forced to work and make the state profits to literally pay off their debts to society.

 

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[Rowdy_Y]

Three time losers should be put to sleep.

Anyone in for murder or other capital offenses should never get the chance to do it again.

 

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The prison system is retarded. Society should not pay to keep inmates incarcerated, prisoners should be forced to work and make the state profits to literally pay off their debts to society.

Screw that....contract them out to the Sudan.... We'll pay $1000 per prisoner per year...... with a sudanese guarantee, that no more than 10% per year die mysterious deaths...... and no fuckin' TV