A lot of people in California are upset with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposed state budget, but businessmen and women generally aren't among them.

The governor's proposals to plug budget shortfalls include 10percent cuts in most departments, early release of thousands of prisoners and the full or partial closing of many state parks.

What they don't include is additional taxes on business.

"We're still working through the budget checking everything," said Denise Davis of the California Chamber of Commerce. "It's a huge process and this is going to be a very tough year. The governor has had to make some hard decisions, but we haven't seen anything hurtful to business."

That's not always true in Sacramento, where business leaders have often accused the Legislature of trying to create a "workers' paradise."

But, Davis says, this governor understands.

"This governor has been supportive of our efforts to protect jobs and to create more jobs," she said. Regional economist Jack Kyser said there really isn't that much state government can do to help business.

"Mostly it's just a matter of staying out of the way," he said. "The economy has some problems right now. We just got the taxable-income numbers for the fourth quarter of 2006 and they were quite surprising.

"Riverside and San Bernardino counties have been increasing by percentages in double digits the last few years, but in this report they were both down by

0.1 percent."