How long before the call to repeal prop. 13 starts?
Somebody remind me again why I want to live here?
Which would, of course, drive businesses and taxpayers out of state.
(As a member of the latter group, I'm looking for an excuse to leave the once-Golden State. Dems of the Calif Legislature, raise my taxes, PLEASE!)
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California’s budget IS a “hole”, and it doesn’t have a bottom.
“If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the
collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not
so great as when they are confined within proper and moderate
bounds. This forms a complete barrier against any material
oppression of the citizens by taxes of this class, and is itself
a natural limitation of the power of imposing them.”
— Alexander Hamilton (Federalist No. 21, 1787)
Reference: The Federalist
Yup. Raise taxes. People and corporations leave. Raise taxes, more leave. Raise taxes again, more leave... Liberals are incredibly stooopid.
I believe California budgets ~$43 Billion for K-12 schools. Just get the school system off the government dole, and turn it over to the private industry.
I'm sure the education system will improve (its hard to imagine it getting any worse).
No free ride for non-citizens.
The schools no longer become a dumping ground for kids who don't want to attend school (I'm sure private industry can tailor products, such as schools that emphasize 'trades', that might interest those who have no desire in going through the K-12 experience).
With the savings we can completely eliminate property taxes (Proposition 13 was a good start in containing property theft by the government -- but it still does not uphold the concept of private property, since one's house can be taken if they fail to pay their property tax).
AND, we can stop the public funding of a union that promotes socialism and class divisions...
It's not going to happen - but whenever I see one of these California budget posts, I'll gladly attach my gratuitous 'privatize the schools' comments.... It's my version of 'I have a Dream'...
Let’s see. In order to alleviate its financial situation, California could probably pare down its endless list of agencies by about a third, maybe more. It could also institute a hiring freeze, and instruct its remaining agencies to make do on, say, five percent less than last year’s budget.
Naw. Better to just soak the population again, as usual ...
HA HA HA HA, California!
Remember Schwarzenegger’s promise when was elected? He was going to “bring the businesses back to Cal-ee-for-nee-ya”?
Business doesn’t like places with sucky, Marxist nanny governments, Ahnold.
Arnold + Politics = Fail
My last trip to CA convinced me that the state had gone to the dogs and fascists.
A goat-humping 50 acre piece of manzanita chocked dirt north of Napa was selling for $3 million.
The realtor informed me that the parcel could not be divided into less than 12 acre plots, as mandated by the county government.
What person in his right mind would pay $3 million for a plot of land that’s controlled by the local fascist government? Talk about no proprty rights.
Himmler and his solution for the eastern territories couldn’t have done a better job of strangling property owners and controlling land for the good of the state.
That entire state is choked with seig heil politcians and sheep who let them get away with massive theft of money, property and liberty.