Posted on 05/11/2009 7:16:43 PM PDT by pissant
California voters head to the polls next week with predictions of doom echoing in their ears if they decline to endorse the massive tax hikes prescribed for them by big Democratic majorities in the statehouse, Arnold and a handful of now ruined-politically Republican legislators.
"Shrill" doesn't begin to describe the campaign designed to stampede the Golden State electorate. The latest ad has a weary, soot-covered fire-fighter urging a yes vote on the tax hike. The message is clear: Vote no and your homes will burn down.
Not even this sort of fear-mongering is moving the needle towards "yes" on the massive tax surge on next week's ballot as poll after poll shows all the key measures put forward by the tax-and-spend-and tax-again crowd failing badly.
Arnold is doing his best to summon up the old magic but his appeal long ago hit Gray Davis-levels. Arnold was elected to slash taxes and spending, and somehow he confused that mandate with orders to throw in with the public employee unions. Too bad. He could have been a contender.
The GOP "leaders" who signed on to this roadmap to ruin have been dumped by their caucuses, and go down in California history as the biggest marks to have ever had a seat at the poker game known as the "Big Five" negotiations wherein the governor and the top Republicans and Democrats in the State Assembly and Senate hash out budget matters.
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The taxes will not pass.
It’s the Chicago Way.
These are the people who elect and re-elect Barbara Boxer, and vote overwhelmingly Democrat.
Forget about it.
“Breaking the union by bankruptcy would probably mean losing all federal money.”
Bring it on, can’t happen quick enough!!!
No bailouts, fire 3/4 of civil service workers, close all public schools!!!!
How about enforcing heavy fines on ALL employers, from families who employ gardeners and nannies, to factories and sweatshops, to food service?
Self-deportation. Paying for ICE guys to go door to door in a few select cities would be all you’d need. A great investment for California.
If a legislative body can work to create spending programs as most spend 90% of their time diddling in, then, by all means, that same legislative body can uncreate spending programs and spending levels.
The taxpaying citizen that still loves his/her country needs to stand up and scream this until the media covers the fact.
Continued handouts to illegals and other giveaway programs need to be the first to go, not to mention all the bilingual public school crap and 'enviro - give a Berkley grad a job' departments in CA. Of course no one talks about that in the news.
This one is going to be heard loudly, like Prop 13 was 30 years ago. Can’t wait for it to happen.
As far as the predictions for a ‘meltdown’ of Cali government, I say to them stop threatening.
Just do it.
“Bring it on, can’t happen quick enough!!!”
I certainly agree, but those in charge on both sides of the political aisle would never let that happen.
I’ve read about this destructive cycle many times. No one with any power seems to want to stop it even though the long and short term effects are obviously destructive.
Very depressing.
Such a “start over” needs done nationally.
Probably, but that would quite literally be taxation without representation.
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