After a month of posturing by disingenuous politicians, California legislators passed a state budget in Sacramento last week.
The $145 billion budget hardly changed from the time it was originally passed on July 20. Vendors, hospitals, nursing homes and adult care centers all got stiffed by roughly $3 billion.
The budget also stripped $1.3 billion from public transit, and freezes payments to the elderly poor, blind, and disabled. A program for mentally ill homeless people was also eliminated.
Among the beneficiaries were the super-rich. Californians who buy yachts out of state now get a tax break.
Despite the fact that California is a “progressive” state relative to others, cuts in services are an inevitable part of the capitalist system. No ruling class politician can change that.
