Via Angry Clam, this interview with Tom McClintock in Human Events. Money quote:
Let me go down the list here real quick. Conforming the state’s prevailing wage laws to the federal Davis-Bacon act would save about $1 billion in construction. Conforming our workers’ compensation laws to Arizona’s would save about $2.5 billion to state and local governments. It is not hard to find waste in a government’s budget that spends as much as California and produces as little. . . . There are a lot [of specific programs] that can be simply abolished. For example, the state of California is alone in the nation in maintaining two separate tax agencies for the purpose of collecting taxes. They maintain duplicate offices in some 16 major cities in California. I have long advocated consolidation. The State Architect’s Office duplicates—at enormous expense—what local planning departments would do anyway. The State Fire Marshall’s Office duplicates what local Fire Departments would be doing anyway. We have a range of state agencies that simply duplicate federal functions. Those are the agencies that I would first abolish, including the entire structure of corporate welfare in this state.
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