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The trouble with half and half这一半与那一半之间的苦恼 The plan to fix Californias budget has run intoproblems 解决加州预算的方案陷入困境 JERRY BROWN was being forced to contemplateplans B and C to save his governorship as TheEconomist went to press. He was sworn in this year as California confronted yet another budgetdeficit considerably larger than the entire budget in most other states. Andbecause California has already made painful cuts inrecent years, Mr Brown wanted to solve roughly half of the problem by cutting spending andhalf by extending a collection of temporary increases in income, sales and car taxes. The ideawas to get a deal by making Democrats and Republicans share equally in the politicaldiscomfort. 在本期《经济学人》出版时，为了保住自己的职位，杰里.布朗正被迫考虑备用方案二和方案三。他在今年初宣誓就职，当时加州再次面临预算赤字，且和其他大多数州的整体预算相比，都多很多。因为在近几年间，加州已经进行了痛苦的削减，布朗希望通过削减支出方案大致解决一半的问题，再通过延长一系列在个人所得税，销售税和汽车税方面的临时加税措施解决另一半问题。布朗希望，通过让民主党和共和党共度政治困境来达成协议。 The first half has proved relatively easy. The legislature, controlled by Democrats and newlyempowered by voters to pass budgets by a simple majority rather than one of two-thirds, hasalready adopted most of the necessary cuts, sparing only schools among the main spendingitems. Democrats made the sacrifice knowing that the alternativean all-cuts budgetwould double the pain. | 
