“The Franchise Tax Board estimates that $465 million in taxes will be lost because furloughed workers will not be on the job to pursue the money through audits and collection efforts. That loss offsets by 28% the $1.66 billion in general fund money that the administration expects to save furloughing state workers two to three days a month.”

Hmmm… so the furloughs a theft of much needed tax revenue? Or are they a secret tax cut; a kind of a backdoor amnesty on audits?

That’s for the pundits to decide. Me, I just see the furloughs as yet another example of a state government that is only bipartisan where mismanagement and stupidity are concerned.

-Anthony Pignataro