Poll confirms: Californians are nuts--they object to both tax increases and cutting spending on bloated social programs

Gee, this news will make balancing the Golden State's vertigo-inducting budget deficit easier:

Californians simultaneously object to increasing taxes in order to pare the state’s massive budget deficit and cutting spending on programs that make up 85 percent of the state’s general fund obligations, according to a new Los Angeles Times/USC Poll.

Californian’s belief [sic] that the state deficit – estimated last week at nearly $25 billion – can be balanced through trimming waste and inefficiencies rather than cutting programs. Even though tens of billions that have been cut from the state budget in recent years, just a quarter of California voters believed that services need to be cut in order to square the budget.

Voters have “a great bias toward spending cuts” rather than tax hikes, said Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg, who co-directed the poll for The Times and the USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences to the Los Angeles Times. “But when you get into it, they don’t want to cut the areas that matter.”

Truthfully, does this insanity come as much of a surprise from the state that reelected both the execrable Jerry Brown and Barbara "Don't call me ma'am" Boxer?