More spending, little restraint in new budget

Gov. Jerry Brown’s revised budget proposal, released Thursday, contains too much spending and not enough fiscal discipline.
The proposal calls for $124 billion in spending from the general fund, and $183.4 billion in total state expenditures. Though this would be a slight 1.4 percent increase from last year’s general fund budget, it nevertheless represents record spending levels.
“Over the past four years, we have increased spending by billions of dollars for education, health