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Proposition 30 is on the California ballot as the result of the Democrat controlled legislature’s failure to do its job and a Democratic Governor giving that legislature a free pass. Reduced to its essence, Prop 30 will burden California taxpayers with an additional $6,600,000,000 in new taxes. California is in a financial crisis of epic proportions and is in far worse shape than most of the rest of the country largely because a Democrat controlled legislature wascontinueally reelected by promising to pay for everything for everyone and has never bothered to look at how they are going to meet these ridiculous and dangerously bloated spending commitments. There are a few things that the legislature can do to start to heal California’s economy, but all of these require these Democrats dominating California government to start to cut spending, shrink government and/or raise taxes. Personally I think that the raise taxes method is the least desirable and least effective method of controlling the state budget, but I would have at lease had some respect for the legislature if they had taken that action. Instead, the legislature has taken the most cowardly approach possible – they have done nothing to control spending and have passed the question of tax increases on to the people in the form of Proposition 30.
Avoiding its legislative obligations regarding taxes is both cowardly and hypocritical. It is cowardly because these Democrats do not want to be held accountable for increasing taxes properly evaluating that in an incredible difficult economic time it is not the right moment to increase taxes. Had the Democrats taken this action directly, it would have been political suicide. It is hypocritical because the Democrats have repeatedly reject all attempts to shrink the size of government, to control salaries of state employees, to control the bloated and crippling pensions of government employees, to reduce the size of a bloated bureaucracy that has so many paid political positions it is difficult for even the most grizzled California political wonk to name them all or to take any other measures to cut runaway spending.
Prop 30 is a complete misuse of the California initiative process which was placed in the constitution at a time when it was recognized that a part-time legislature might not get to or recognize all issues of significance to California’s electorate. It was NOT put in place for the Governor or the legislature to punt on issues that they feel too “politically hot” to deal with themselves. Rather than actually stand by their words, the Governor and the legislature have ducked on this issue and are counting on an expensive ad campaign to convince citizens to tax themselves. I hope this circumvention and avoidance of their political responsibility fails and both the Democratic Governor and legislature face serious electoral consequences for refusing to do their jobs.
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Government is the problem and is the enemy of the people. They are elitists and bureaucrats and many get rich while in office as they pass laws to “protect” the insects, the fish, the birds, the grasslands, the oceans, the air, water, etc. by controlling, limiting, restricting, taxing, regulating, etc. They yield too much power. They are a bunch of liars and vipers.
I hope some day you and your loved ones find yourselves in a life-threatening emergency so that you DO NOT call the government for help and then just suffer and die.
Their website is sooolow I found this on their page, though: Research has shown that nearly all Death Row inmates suffer from brain damage due to illness or trauma. This is interesting if true. I would find this highly implausible if the claim were about incarcerated violent criminals in general, but it is interesting if the subpopulation of death row inmates are largely brain-damaged.I recently made a modest donation to the Damien Echols defense fund (www.wm3.org), speaking of death row innocence projects. Gotta defend the unfairly persecuted black-clad metalheads.
, only two things are iifnnite: the universe and human stupidity . We got a good dose of what many would call human stupidity last week in New Jersey when 5 un-elected members of the Public Health Council (PHC) voted to mandate four new vaccines for children. The vaccines that will be mandated in 2008 include: the influenza vaccine, pneumococcal, meningococcal, tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertusis (Tdap) vaccine. Two of the vaccines, influenza and Sanofi Pasteur’s meningococcal vaccine (Menomune) contain thimerosal (mercury). EmailPrintCommentIn spite of a week’s long protest from constituents that included parents, physicians and dozens of organizations, the State Health Commissioner gave his seal of approval on Friday, December 15. Today I want to appeal to New Jersey Governor Corzine to re-evaluate these recommendations and carefully consider the ramifications for New Jersey’s children. Unless Governor Corzine, the state legislature, or perhaps a judge intervenes, New Jersey will go down in history as the first state in the nation, for that matter the world, to order parents to vaccinate their preschoolers with a known developmental neurotoxin, which many parents, physicians and scientific research suggest is linked to the epidemic of developmental disorders, including autism
Redistricting is a scam, that has gone on for way to long. Both parties are gulity participants. Get elected, then game the district lines, to insure re-election. This needs to end. districts should be based on population density and geography. Then frozen, there. If a particular special interest group doesn’t like the way things are going, in their district, they can move.
This is not a problem unique to California. For years those in charge in every state, in every county, in every city, in every business, and in the federal government have failed in diligently performing their duties and responsibilities.
They just kept raising their own salaries and retirement funds, giving-in to every demand of the Unions for higher wages/salaries and retirement funds, and now wonder why they are broke or heading there.
The citizens fall into the same category with Social Security, Medicare, and now ObamaCare. They fail to see that every one of these funds is or will go broke and there aren’t enough taxpayers to pay for them.
It is time for every citizen to stand up and say, “ENOUGH!” Our government and our leaders have failed us! “AND WE LET THEM DO IT!” With our greed and our lack of foresight and understanding, “We have let it happen!”
The day of reckoning is here. In California several cities have already resorted to bankruptcy and I would argue the only escape for the State of California IS BANKRUPTCY! As I see it, it is the only way to overcome the massive debt you have incurred with those bloated salaries and unsustainably generous retirement funds.
You cannot spend yourself into prosperity. When you are broke it is time to stop spending!
IT IS TIME TO SAY, “NO!”
Proposition 13 made it almost impossible for our state legislature to raise taxes. To do so requires a 2/3 vote in each house. Democrats have a majority in each house, but in each they fall short of the 2/3 majority that would be needed to raise taxes to adequately fund schools. As we know, no Republican will ever vote for any tax increase because the party will not allow them to do so. Thus the only approach possible was to go to the voters, as the governor has done.
California has one of the highest costs of living of any state. Yet we rank 35th in the country in per pupil spending. We spend less that $10,000 per student. The top states spend $18,000.
California is shortchanging its children. In doing so, it is shortchanging its future. The key to prosperity is a well educated work force. California used to have that, until the effects of Proposition 13 took root. We can again have a great education system, if we are willing to pay for it. Please join me in voting YES on Proposition 30.
Proposition 13 was passed by California voters more than three decades ago and is now a part of the California Constitution. California already has one of the highest income tax and sales tax rates in the country. Huge amounts of money that should go to teachers directly are unwillingly skimmed out of teachers pay checks by the public union bosses. Unfunded pension obligations to teachers often allow teachers to make more in retirement than they ever made during the days that they actually worked as teachers. Schools have lost funding not because of decreased taxes, but because of reckless spending by California Democrats on things like billions for non high speed rail between Modesto and Fresno. Let’s clean up the California Democrats’ reckless spending spree before burdening folks with more taxes.
All you do is talk shit. You’re all nothing but a much of grumpy old white men. You’re a dying breed. Let yourselves die with some dignity, you selfish republicans.
You guys are funny. All your talk about money and taxes an how much you hate government.
You hate it so much? Leave? Leave my country you selfish, lazy, good for nothing, self-centered bitches! Go start your own law-less country somewhere else. YOU DO NOT DESERVE TO CALL YOURSELF AN AMERICAN.
Just wondering, with all your talk about money and debt and taxes and blah blah blah, what is it that makes your money worth anything? THE GOVERNMENT gives it it’s value! So f*@# off you ignorant shit talkers.
Uhm, no, the government does not give it value in any way. If a government gave money its value it could easily control inflation, direct market values and the like, none of which are possible. They have all been tried, but the market always determines the economic value of everything in all of its chaotic brilliance.
I love dirty white republican p*&%y!
True, but I see no incentive for TAR to sropput the bill. Then again, I see no reason for the TREC Administrator to sropput it but he does so who knows where this might end up. Personally, I’m against mandatory E&O but only because of the way it was shoved down our throats in 2007. If the proposal were to go before TREC and/or the legislature with public debate and input and then still be passed then I could live with that. I could really live with it if it included agents & brokers. I had E&O before it was mandated and will even if it is repealed.
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