California faces what Jerry Brown calls a 'wall of debt' it accumulated by using borrowing instead of revenues or spending cuts to balance its budget over the last few years. In fact a big chunk of the new revenues from the tax increase, some $4.2 billion next fiscal year, will go to pay off that debt.
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