Most Latinos, for instance, support all five budget propositions on the May ballot while most whites oppose them, according to recent polls by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets always looked like the riskiest big-budget proposition of the summer.
The state's education department prohibits schools from using public money to encourage the public to vote for a budget or proposition.
Tear up your credit cards and throw them away!" (This was a reference to the balanced-budget amendment, Proposition 58 — which, in reality, still allows some borrowing in the case of a budget shortfall).
And suddenly, thanks to the one-a-day art movement, buying three original oil paintings is not a budget-busting proposition.
The poll results confirm what has long been obvious to Star Trek observers: by rebooting the series in 2009 as an action-oriented, fast-paced, big-budget blockbuster proposition, Abrams and his team have completely alienated the hardcore Star Trek audience that has followed the film series and various TV iterations since its inception.
At a special election on May 19, California voters will consider six budget-related propositions backed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger: 1A: To increase the size of the state's "rainy day" fund to 12.5percentt of the general fund, up from 5percentt; impose spending caps; and maintain a sales tax increase through 2013.
In a famous analysis, Martin Feldstein pronounced them "twin deficits", linking the external deficit to the budget deficit, a proposition that made sense at the time: the budget deficit was helping to drive up interest rates, and high rates led to an overvalued dollar.
"We all believe cancer research is important, but California can't afford to start a new billion-dollar spending programme when we have a $16+ billion budget deficit". Under proposition 29, the tax per pack would jump from 87 cents to $1.87.
