Somewhat. Being held to an actual budget is causing some legislators to prioritize. However government employees refuse to allow any form of government shrinking which is the majority of California's budget. For example the teachers union makes it seem all about "the children" even though they use the vhast majority of the CA budget. Executives cut or threaten to cut low level employees paid 1/3 the wages if cuts are forced, when they have entire office buildings full of administrators that are not even part of schools.
Its all a big game, and they ususaly cut the people that will cause the most outrage and panic in the population so they will regain any budget. If a city has to cut something, they cut fire or police, use the resulting panic to make residents feel unsafe, and then through the scare tactics recieve more money. All while they had hundreds of other projects totaling many times the fiscal amount to cut, projects that wouldn't have enabled the same scare tactic though.
A bad result of the budget is most government agencies and employees are clawing out thier existence any way possible, absolutely refusing to shrink. So new laws and taxes, doubling of registration fees etc are being done. The way the Democrats are trying to balance the budget is raising taxes across the board on every thing they possibly can. Some of the Republicans (and many CA Republicans would be moderate Democrats in other states) are saying "The citizens voted against all of the special election measures to increase taxes, they want cuts not taxes". As a result they have a deadlock.
No democract wants to cut any union jobs and deal with the backlash, which are where most of the budget goes.
They want to tax everything much more! Green taxes, automobile, alcohol, tobacco, doubling previous fees, registration, etc They have fines now for watering during the day, watering on the wrong day of the week, etc etc
Fines for talking on a phone. Fines for new things pop up every other day.
All while the majority of the Democrat legislator wants to balance the budget not by actualy shrinking, even as the largest state government in the nation, but by taxing everything more.
Some areas have over 10% sales tax now. There is high state level income tax, property taxes, and various taxes many states don't have.
I don't see why any business would move to California, and plenty of reasons why any business would be packing up as soon as possible. The onslaught of taxes/fees/fines in addition to tougher restrictions is far from business friendly. The rate they think them up has increased dramaticly with the budget crisis.
