A significant majority of California voters do not approve of the trigger cuts provision of this year’s state budget, according to a polling report released by the Field Research Corporation this morning.
Sixty-six percent of voters disapprove of the trigger cuts, which would further cut spending on programs including health care, K-12 education and higher education. The trigger cuts would be enacted should tax revenue not meet expectations laid out in the budget, according to the report.
Polling data showed mixed opinions on the budget cuts already enacted. About one out of four voters disapprove of the recent budget cuts — which slashed state spending on the UC by $650 million and on higher education as a whole by $1.7 billion — as too extensive, while one in three view the cuts as too limited. Only 29 percent of voters see the budget cuts as about right, according to the report.
Two in three California voters believe the state as a whole is headed in the wrong direction, according to the report.
The Field Research Corporation sampled 1,001 random registered voters to obtain their data.
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COMMON GUYS, PLEASE, TELL THE LABOR UNION, IF THEY REALLY CARED,ABOUT EDUCATION, THEY WILL AGGREE TO CONTIBUTE MORE ON THEIR PENSIONS,HEALTH CARE, I DON’T MIND PAYING HIGH TAXES AS LONG AS THEY CAN GUARANTEED THAT MY MONEY WILL GO TO EDUCATION NOT TO THEIR PENSIONS AND HEALTH CARE.LABOR UNION IS WILLING TO CLOSE SCHOOLS RATHER THAN CUT THEIR BENEFITS.
part of ‘paying for education’ is paying the educators who provide the service You can always find sone willing to do it for minimum wage. I am in no way ‘pro-union’. but as an employer myself, I pay into my employees health insurance and retirement. It’s the cost of doing business.
I’ve solved your problem: http://givetocal.berkeley.edu/
Dependent folks hate it when their free/subsidized stuff gets cut. Suck it clowns.
FYI. the poorest states in the union are repub. ‘blue states’ typically have more education and higher income per captia than red states. In short, we pay more in incomes taxes We just don’t make a big deal of it. We also don’t take issue with our tax dollars being used to assist those less fortunate.
the whole ‘ liberals want a free lunch’ is a tiresome spoon-fed misconception