California Proposition 1E

Posted by Christopher Smith Mon, 06 Nov 2006 21:45:00 GMT

Blah, it’s getting late, and I’m still slogging through these 1 Plan proposals. So, what’s next on the menu for spending? Well, nobody wanted to miss out on all the Katrina excitement, so we’ve got $4 billion for levees and other flood preparedness infrastructure.

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  1. Christopher Smith about 17 hours later:

    Actually, $4 billion for a $7-12 billion problem isn’t too unreasonable, if you assume we’ll be able to tap into some sort of Federal matching funds to make up the difference.

    I hadn’t thought about that. With matching funds it seems like general fund spending, like the $0.5 billion we spent this year, would address the problem soon enough.

    Leaving it up to local governments seems like a bad idea, given that the possible bad outcome would cause serious problems outside those local areas. For example, I had the impression that a lot of California gets drinking water from the Sacramento delta.

    I hear you on that, but we leave it to local governments to run the systems. I can’t see it making much sense for the state to pay for it without actually running it, and this measure does nothing to change who runs what.

    In general, I’m not advocating letting it be the domain of local governments. I like the idea of the feds spending on these kinds of things, with additional spending by the locals so they can do things the way they want to.

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