The Budget Deadline Should Be Erased

While watching the annual embarrassment of the California Legislature’s inability to abide by the mandates of the state Constitution and deliver a budget on time, I have come to the conclusion that legislators rarely ever will.

Therefore, rather than go through the ritual of making them lawbreakers every year -- breaking their solemn oath of office and bringing disrespect on our democratic form of government -- write your representatives and urge them to pass a constitutional amendment to repeal those provisions that require a budget be passed by a date certain.

It may not be the moral high ground, but it seems to be the only practical solution. It’s preferable to having our elected representatives violate their oath of office every year. The current situation is like pornography; it probably won’t have a marked negative effect on adults but you don’t want the kids to see it.

Howard McGarry

Upland