The Plan

Chris McCoy has established his plan, which will provide a road map back to the great California. We aren't looking for a New California.

1. Privatize Prisons and Prison Guards. Retrain half of the state-employed prison guards to become police officers.
2. Put caps on state employee salaries based on years-served scale with a maximum cap of $200,000.
3. All CalPer pensions will be based on the average salary of the last 5 years of civil service, not the last quarter.
4. Pass legislation requiring that there may only be one administrative position for evary 6 teaching positions in all school districts. No administrative position may make more than the highest paid teacher in that school district.
5. Guarantee guest workers (illegal or not) a valid license and zero state enforcement as long as they pay state taxes. The Feds can fix their own problem.
6. Guarantee a minimum of two years of college for all our high school grads using our junior college system. Institute the same 6:1 administration ratio I propose in the grade-school system.
7. Rectify water issues in the San Juaquin valley and restore the salton sea.
8. Pass an amendment making the State budget cycle a 2-year cycle to eliminate the yearly waste of time legislators spend trying to coin a deal.
9. Pass a state constitutional amendment allowing budgets to pass by a simple majority, but ensuring new taxes require a super-majority.
10. Eliminate the current state voter initiative system.
11. Pass a fair and logical state property tax system and eliminate the prop-13 system. Home owners property tax would float until the age of 55. It would then be fixed until the age of 65. At 65 property tax is lowered by 20%, and then lowered 1% every year until death.
12. Pass legislation requiring minors that drop out of high school to be ineligible for employment until they pass a GED or get a waiver for mental illness from a child-services judge.
13. Open the state health insurance market to all companies willing to locate a corporate office employing at least 300 workers within state borders.
14. Incentivize the creation of manufacturing jobs in the state.
15. Require private non-profit schools to pay unemployment insurance just like public and private schools.
16. Pass a pay to play amendment to the constitution requiring all new legislation to enumerate exactly how the state will pay for the law.
17. Pass legislation requiring all political parties and political supporters (corporate or private) to put their money into a single campaign finance pool and then provide an equal share to each candidate that gets past the primaries. (this is probably illegal, but I am willing to give it a try.)

Oh, I believe in a woman's right to choose. I wholeheartedly support the right of any two consenting adults to get married and have all the rights that entails. I support stem-cell research. I am against all forms of hate including schoolyard bullying.