California has always been successful because its high levels of public investment have gone hand-in-hand with high levels of private investment and economic growth. We're never going to be a low-wage, low-cost state. So we need to be a high-productivity state, and that involves substantial investments in education and infrastructure.

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Various companies have sought refundable credits, and those have been rejected as essentially corporate welfare or handouts based not on economics but solely based on special pleadings.

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The fact that Hollywood productions use famously creative accounting is no reason to compromise a basic principle of our tax system.

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I don't think it's out of the ordinary because revenue estimating is always difficult.

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These vetoes basically say to these people that they can flout the law without repercussions, ... Ordinary taxpayers can't do that.

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It's going to be rewarding activity that's already taking place in California ... so there is nothing but revenue being given away.

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