What do people think of prop 21?

This argument completely ignores the history of park funding. The parks were never meant to be funded out of the General Fund in the first place! The parks were funded from the vehicle license fee that the Governator did away with his second day in office. After that, the funds had to either be borrowed from the General Fund, or they had to be completely done away with. As you might recall, the parks were very close to being axed completely. The GOP in this state makes it sound like the park system is this overbloated agency full of waste and extravagance, when they were the ones that took away the parks funding, forcing them to borrow money from the GF in the first place! Have you ever visited a state park??? If you're lucky, they've refilled the toilet paper in the pit toilet. Prop 21 basically undoes the harm that was done, and sets things back to the way they were.

What the article says is they need the $500 so there is always a source of funding for the parks, and we don't have to face the prospect of closing them all down again.

"Starve the beast" and lowering taxes is a very politically popular stance until people realize what has to get cut. We expect roads to be fixed when a bad winter washes them away. We expect bathroom facilities and place to park our cars when we go visit a park. We expect firefighters to at least attempt to save our homes when there is a wildfire. We expect the police to respond when we call 911. We expect the roofs of the schools to not leak rain water on our kids' heads. We expect to not have to pay $100,000 for in-state college education. We expect violent criminals to be kept in jail. The money for all of that doesn't just grow on the money tree. WE fund all of that. And it's worthwhile, IMHO.

addictionms said:

so there it is, confirming what I said, redirect the money that is in the budget for the parks to some unknown purpose (probably one you may not agree with), a trust they will somehow figure out how to raid,

and why $500M not $130M? because they want to excess to spin off, remember they can "borrow" from the fund, and who says they will not build the Jerry/Meg Park Re-education center in some park with the money rather than what you would like done.

Safety in the parks is one of the issues, that is easy to solve, issue CCWs to Californians,

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but do we need this?

"Schools Go Orange with Carrot Vending Machines"

http://www.triplepundit.com/2010/09/schools-go-orange-with-carrot-vending-machines/

sure there are things the goverment should do, why is those things that always get thrown out there as what we will have to give up if there is not eoungh money? There are alot of things that would be better run if left to local goeverment or private business, those are the things we should be cutting.....

IMBA has an action alert for prop 21
http://www.imba.com/alerts/support-prop21