CA Governor Jerry Brown proposed $8.3 billion in cuts across education, health care and welfare programs in laying out a plan to address California’s $15.7 billion shortfall, an amount equal to 17 percent of the state’s discretionary fund. He warned that additional cuts are ahead if voters reject his tax-hike initiative in November saying that’s why he’s linking the serious budget reductions — real increase to austerity — with a plea to the voters: Please increase taxes temporarily on the most affluent and everyone else with a quarter of a cent sales tax according to a report on Yahoo.com.