Posted on 05/20/2009 8:45:34 AM PDT by usflagwaver
Just as they did so when they defeated the Reiner Initiative in 2005 and rejected Gray Davis’ tripling of the car tax, California voters once again rejected calls for more taxes in yesterday’s statewide special election.
The writing was on the wall from early on - Rasmussen Reports indicated that 73% of Californians opposed income tax increases and 69% opposed sales tax increases. In addition, 69% of respondents believed that major cuts in government are the way to balance the budget, while only 16% opposed them. Given the voter registration statistics in this state, those response rates constitute a solid consensus across party lines and a clear message that it is time for the politicians to offer a new direction for California.
Even in the face of adversity, with our legislators facing another multi-billion dollar deficit, there are some simple steps that can be taken to rebuild trust with the people of California.
Step 1: We Must Achieve Stable Funding For The Government We Actually Need
Our elected officials need to finally accept that the laws of economics trumps the laws of politicians and that for too long the California economy has been battered by their public policy. The result has been over 100,000 Californians leaving California each year, along with businesses, jobs and tax revenue.
Indeed, according to Art Laffer and Stephen Moore, “from 1998 to 2007, more than 1,100 people every day including Sundays and holidays moved from the nine highest income-tax states such as California, New Jersey, New York and Ohio and relocated mostly to the nine tax-haven states with no income tax, including Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire and Texas. We also found that over these same years the no-income tax states created 89% more jobs and had 32% faster personal income growth than their high-tax counterparts.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalvanguard.com ...
California Time For A New Direction,stop spending money you don’t have and deport illegals problem solved.
“California Time For A New Direction,stop spending money you don’t have and deport illegals problem solved.”
The powers that be in California refuse to acknowledge the connection of ‘immigration’ & the problems that face it.
California has more legal and illegal ‘immigrants’ than any state. The legal ones may actually be more problematic...they are the ones demanding the illegals get amnesty and they vote in the socialist fools every time.
More than 1 million people became citizens in 2008, with 780,000 taking the oath of allegiance in the first 10 months, according to preliminary figures from the Department of Homeland Security.
In 2007, 660,477 people were granted U.S. citizenship.
Leading countries of birth of new citizens were:
Mexico (122,258), India (46,871), Philippines (38,830), China (33,134) and Vietnam (27,921)
Largest number of people naturalizing lived in:
California (181,684), New York (73,676) and Florida (54,563).
SOURCE: Office of Immigration Statistics, Department of Homeland Security
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/WestVolusia/wvlHEAD03WEST012209.htm
tudy: Illegal Immigrants Having More Kids In US Associated Press ^ | April 14, 2009
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/money/19175382/detail.html
Growing numbers of children of illegal immigrants are being born in this country, and they are nearly twice as likely to live in poverty than those with American-born parents...
Overall, illegal immigrants’ children account for one of every 15 students in kindergarten through 12th grade. In 2008, California had the most illegal immigrants at 2.7 million, double its 1990 number, followed by Texas, Florida, New York and New Jersey.
Congress needs to change the anchor baby laws problem solved.
TIME FOR ANOTHER REAGAN IN THE GOVERNORS MANSION-and his name is NOT Ron.
Get the Liberals out of the state capital. They are only good at give aways to supporters to keep power. What should California Do?
1. Sell the oil leases! Drill! drill, Drill!
2. Open up the state to Nuclear power stations.
3. Get off the Global Warming circus wagon.
4. Lower Taxes not raise them.
5. Cut programs to Illegals
6. Built some new refineries.
7. Make Gambling legal
8. Make Pot Legal—and Tax it.
9. Re do the contracts to the unions.
I’ve given this some thought and I believe that this election is a turning point - a sign that CA may once again be in the forefront of a new movement.
Just as CA brought prop 13 and Ronald Reagan to the national stage during the dark days of the Carter years, so too, CA is bringing the anti-tax and spend message during the national zenith of the democratic party. The message here is that CA voters have had enough tax increases and phony budget cuts and demand real reform.
If Schwarteznegger has any savvy he would not blow this golden opportunity to leave the legacy he was elected to accomplish - to slash the bloated state budget and reform the out of control spending.
I expect this to spread nationally. You read it here first.
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