Chronicle Propagates Right-Wing Budget Myths

by Paul Hogarth via Beyond Chron

Mon, Aug 3, 2009 6:53AM

Monday, August 3, 2009 : While California’s poor, elderly and children suffer the consequences of the new state budget, Arnold’s friends at the San Francisco Chronicle are going for the kill. Yesterday’s front-page story about the state’s “long spending spree” was so biased and misleading that it could have been written by the right-wing Howard Jarvis Taxpayer’s Association.

It’s no surprise that a state that grew by 7 million people from 1990 to 2008 would spend more money than it did 20 years ago, and even fluctuations in per capita spending don’t tell the whole story. The Chronicle did not mention state funding for the UC system has dropped 40% since 1990, California is now 47th in the nation in K-12 per-pupil spending and we are the only state kicking uninsured children off SCHIP rolls – and wait-listing thousands more. Rather than admit the state has a revenue problem, the Chronicle would rather make readers believe we have a spending problem – and that the rich pay too many taxes. For liberal San Francisco’s paper of record, that’s a colossal embarrassment.

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