By John Myers, KQED News Fix/Faultlines
In the post-recession era of California budgets, there is a wide consensus that the state needs to “live within its means,” a jab at the spending that paved the way for almost a decade of deficits. But it is also a talking point that seems almost obsolete, given how the spending saga is now overshadowed by who gets to define the “means.”
It is a change in the budget debate that, so far, seems to have further strengthened the hand of the governor.
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