Posted on 03/17/2009 8:05:10 AM PDT by SmithL
California's recession has not stopped lawmakers from proposing nearly two dozen bills that would dip into taxpayers' pocketbooks for causes from trauma care to domestic violence.
The measures would affect millions of Californians in ways ranging from legalizing and regulating marijuana to charging for shopper carry-out bags or requiring sterilization of pet cats that roam.
Most of the Democrat-driven proposals target specific groups of people, such as millionaires, pornography buyers, teenage drivers, motorcycle owners, cigarette smokers or liquor drinkers.
The goal typically is to alter risky behavior, reduce pollution or to raise money for education, roads, shelters, emergency services or other vital services in a cash-strapped state.
"It's other people's money and they can dream up every single good cause in the world to justify the further rape of the California taxpayer," said Jon Coupal of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
The new measures come only weeks after bitter fighting produced a new state budget with $12.5 billion in higher taxes and fees.
"After they've just jammed us with new taxes, they should not be talking about this," Coupal said of the new proposals.
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said democracy feeds off new ideas, but that nobody is forgetting voters' pain.
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Birds gotta fly, and
Rats gotta tax!
Oh, for the power to spend other people’s money.
Water is wet!
The sky is blue!
The same can be said for the Democrat Party in any State.
It must suck to be a Rat.
California is a bankruptcy waiting to happen.
I find it interesting that they want to tax people that don’t have any money. Control, control, control. Keep the people broke and you have control of them. Keep them broke and they will need to rely on government to survive.
We need more taxpayer tea parties to break out all over the state of Kalifornia.
“It must suck to be a Rat.”
Yes, they were never weaned!
This state has created a new spectrum of red because of all the debt we have. It’s called California Red.
Sure let’s not address the problem of spending, let’s just raise taxes.....GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
If the Dems weren’t so ingrained here, we might have a chance to throw them out on their asses and get some level headed people in the gov.
It’s St. Pattys day, damn it...It’s 8:40 AM here and I’m not drunk yet...I’m a terrible Irishman.
The word Democrat is a synonym for taxes
These people must be insane.
The only thing that is going to stop this nonsense is to cut the flow of blood to the tumor... stop paying taxes. Period.
They can’t help, spending that money of mine.
Biden says paying taxes is patriotic. Too bad liberals done feel that way especially Obama cabinet candidates.
So their gona tax:
Alcohol
Pot
Porno
Smokes
Friday nights hit hardest
We should persuade the GOP to propose a tax on Registered Dems on the grounds that they are hazardous to the health of all normal people. The proceeds of this tax to be spend on compulsory Dem re-education.
Pass a referendum LIMITING the state legislature to a 2 week session every year. Require that the budget be passed & signed before any other legislation can be considered. Allow the governor to call emergency sessions as necessary. And cut legislator's pay to 1/26th its current amount (2 weeks work, 2 weeks pay).
The longer they are in session, the more nonsense they pass. So, limit the time they have to rob & enslave you.
New legislation rarely grants rights to the people, except at the expense of other people.
Won't make much difference. Kalifornia is so loaded with the brain dead that empty heads will still vote the RATS and their "killing us" in for ever and ever. Didn't want to say it but the State is a garbage pile. And the biggest pile of garbage is Hollywierd and San Francisco with LA a close behind.
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