Now there's a plan!
Norberto Santana Jr. reports on the latest California budget hijinks in the San Diego Union-Tribune that County leaders reject sales-tax plan:

State Assembly Speaker Herb Wesson came to San Diego yesterday hoping the county Board of Supervisors would support a five-year, half-cent-on-the-dollar sales-tax increase to help fill a $38 billion state budget deficit.

What the Culver City Democrat got instead was a recommendation from board Chairman Greg Cox to have the state file for bankruptcy.

"I thought I had heard it all," Wesson said after Cox floated the idea.

Supervisor Dianne Jacob said, "The state is bankrupt, so why not admit it? Why would taxpayers support raising taxes when there is no plan in place to fundamentally change the way the state does business?"

Good question.