{"id":23169,"date":"2015-04-15T13:02:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T18:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=23169"},"modified":"2015-04-15T13:02:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T18:02:41","slug":"texas-vs-california-update-for-april-15-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=23169","title":{"rendered":"Texas vs. California Update for April 15, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hope you’ve finished your taxes already! Time for another Texas vs. California update:<\/p>\n

  • Detroit and Stockton’s bankruptcies may signal further problems nationwide<\/a>, says New York Fed President William Dudley. “While these particular bankruptcy filings have captured a considerable amount of attention, and rightly so, they may foreshadow more widespread problems than what might be implied by current bond ratings.”\n
  • The Texas senate approves a $211.4 billion biannual budget<\/a>, which will need to be reconciled with the $209.8 billion House budget<\/a>. Both budgets offer tax relief, but of different kinds.\n
  • The senate also zero funds two rogue agencies the Texas Racing Commission and the Travis County Public Integrity Unit<\/a>. Expect Texas House Speaker Joe Straus, with deep ties to the gambling industry, to go to the mat to save the Racing Commission.\n
  • The Texas senate has also passed signifcant spending limit reform<\/a> in Senate Bill 9<\/a>.\n
  • CalPERS raises contribution rates by 6%<\/a>.\n
  • California senate OKs yet another restrictive energy policy<\/a> bill. Yet another in their continuing “Let’s send as much business to Texas as possible” acts…\n
  • Los Angeles Unified School District extends lavish employee benefits package<\/a> another three years, despite existing underfunded liabilities. (Hat tip: Pension Tsunami<\/a>.)\n
  • California sets aside $261 million for cost overruns<\/a> on its already pricey high speed rail boondoggle.\n
  • California’s drought is something environmentalist liberal elites have brought on themselves<\/a>: “Those who did the most to cancel water projects and divert reservoir water to pursue their reactionary nineteenth-century dreams of a scenic, depopulated, and fish-friendly environment enjoy lifestyles predicated entirely on the fragile early twentieth-century water projects of the sort they now condemn.”\n
  • More on the same theme<\/a>.\n
  • San Diego builds a desalinization plant<\/a> (Hat tip: Moe Lane<\/a>.)\n
  • Central California is already starting to suffer water-related thefts<\/a>.\n
  • In the wake of the Vergara ruling, California Republicans want to overhaul how teachers are hired and fired<\/a>. Naturally teacher’s unions are opposed…\n
  • Judge rules that California must pay for sex change operations for prisoners<\/a> on Eight Amendment grounds. “To contend that ‘forcing’ a prisoner to continue as a man violates the Constitution is absurd…It is nonsensical to grant imprisoned convicted felons health-care ‘entitlements’ that many law-abiding, hardworking taxpayers don\u2019t enjoy.”\n
  • California prostitutes demand prostitution be legalized.<\/a> You’d think they’d get a sympathetic hearing from California’s Democrat-controlled legislation, what with all they have in common… (Hat tip: Instapundit<\/a>.)\n
  • Stanford student council candidate grilled over Colleging While Jewish<\/a>. This could go in the regular LinkSwarm, but I noticed that both of these recent incidents took place in California.\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Hope you’ve finished your taxes already! Time for another Texas vs. California update: Detroit and Stockton’s bankruptcies may signal further problems nationwide, says New York Fed President William Dudley. “While these particular bankruptcy filings have captured a considerable amount of attention, and rightly so, they may foreshadow more widespread problems than what might be implied […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":22,"footnotes":""},"categories":[422,17,255,12,319,65,232],"tags":[2879,406,2457,63,825,2712,2876,2861,2709,2711,2877,2372,78,2710,2875],"class_list":["post-23169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-democrats","category-regulation","category-texas","category-unions","category-waste-and-fraud","category-welfare-state","tag-budget","tag-california","tag-drought","tag-fraud","tag-joe-straus","tag-los-angeles-unified-school-district","tag-regulation","tag-texas","tag-texas-racing-commission","tag-travis-county-public-integrity-unit","tag-unions","tag-vergara-vs-california","tag-waste","tag-water","tag-welfare-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23169"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23316,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23169\/revisions\/23316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}