California Zappers: a Proposal for California’s Commission on the 21st Century Economy

On December 11, 2008 California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders announced appointments to the Commission on the 21stCentury Economy. The mandate is to propose ways to modernize the California revenue system by April 15, 2009. The Governor is concerned with the “feast-or-famine” budget cycles, and Senate President pro Tempore Darrell Steinberg emphasized that the Commission is expected to provide a, “… much needed outside perspective on what exactly needs…