that was a greek tragedy a preview of what's to come in california here to discuss this is dr caroline holdren politics professor also dental college welcome caroline so we've seen what happened in greece the massive protests as a response to the austerity measures now are things similar proposals in california what parallels can be drawn between the two. well liz i think one parallel that can be drawn is that both have a revenue problem and california has had an issue with its revenue that is raising enough revenue to provide the services that californians need since we passed prop thirteen in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight and really tied the hands of the states so that we couldn't we could only get revenue from certain sources which makes california heavily dependent on income taxes so this is not the first time this problem has come up it comes up every time there's a there's a crash in the stock market there's a decline for example in income exacerbated by this most recent housing bubble so when the housing bubble burst and we're so heavily reliant on income taxes in this state we