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I guess people were tired of the legislature not putting together a budget

by June 30th. The fiscal year begins in July 1. It would drag on because they were trying to raise

taxes. They couldn't always get votes, blah, blah, blah. So eventually, they were forced to pass or at least come up with a budget by June 15th and then pass it by the end of the month.

Well, they did that in a state senate and assembly, which is greatly controlled by Democrats, so it's not hard to strike some sort of a deal.

The deadline would be tomorrow, but apparently it was announced last night

that they had reached a preliminary state budget plan,

which they have to mesh with Newsom and come up with the final budget.

More than $300 billion is this massive state budget.

However, what they don't have in it is anything

specific dealing with gas price relief for people, gas rebates, they call it.

Consider even though both the legislature and the governor have talked about some idea for giving

people gas price relief. We have the highest gas taxes in the country, by far.

One of the main reasons that our gas goes for about a buck 50 more than the national average

is that we have about $1.25s worth of taxes.

So they should return our money back to us because they have $100 billion in a

surplus. That's the money they can't spend. Yeah. So I don't understand this. In fact,

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