Posted on 06/09/2006 4:46:51 AM PDT by bu9418
People of California Defeat Prop 82..
This week in California there was a special election for the House seat that was previously occupied by the disgraced Republican Duke Cunningham.
It was somewhat newsworthy that the GOP held onto the seat, but what was even more newsworthy was the defeat of proposition 82. For some reason this is not getting the play it should.
Proposition 82 was a bill to raise taxes on all Californians earning over 400,000 a year. It would have affected .6% of the people of California. The tax hike was proposed for the purpose of providing Universal Pre-School.
It was a bill that got onto the ballot at the lobbying of Rob Reiner (the meathead from All in the Family days).
This bill was rejected overwhelmingly 60-40. I am shocked.
First of all, it was California. Secondly, 99.4 percent of the California population would not have been affected by the original bill. It was a typical leftist soak the rich, and redistribute the wealth tax and spend scheme.
So why did the people of California reject it?
Are we finally seeing the re-education of economic liberty in this country?
This IS going to be a measuring stick for November, and it is my gut feeling that this is why the defeat of this bill hasn't been played up in the media.
The people of California, surprisingly, get it!.
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The taxes to just live there are speaking pretty loudly I guess- and they can see thousands of pre-schools full of illegal alien's anchor babies...
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