Schwarzeneggar Proposes to End HIV/AIDS Services

[Alex]

I haven't looked at the specifics of the service provided so don't know how I feel specifically yet.

But since the budget shortfall is about 40% (I think that was the number I found when I last looked) of the entire discretionary budget and since every item in the budget has some group who thinks that item is among the 5 most important things the government does and since it is essentially impossible to raise taxes in this state, as CP asks, what should be cut?

That said, I have no doubt that picking some of the highest profile most-likely-to-outrage things to cut is part of the game. That is always part of the game. If a city needs to cut $100 because they can't raise taxes then it will come out of the police or fire department budget, not the secretarial Christmas party budget. You cut the things that piss off the most people because that is how you get them to give permission to increase revenues.