Posted on 03/10/2010 11:34:59 PM PST by CounterCounterCulture
Honestly, that’s a pretty misleading headline.
In the same sense that shooting up heroin makes sense to the junkie at the time.
I'm willing to give Republican candidates some latitude on social issues. But if they have not even the slightest understanding of free-market economics...what's the difference between them and the Democrat?
Every potential Republican officeholder should have to take a simple test on economics. If they don't pass, they can't run on the party line.
That’s a good idea. And Californians, I heard that there are unlimited numbers of new jobs in New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. ;-)
We don’t need to increase anything.
We have so much oil off the coast that it comes gurgling up through the ocean floor uninvited whether we want it to or not.
To sit flat on our backsides, bankrupt, with double-digit unemployment, can’t pay salaries, putting people on furlough left and right, when all you have to do is stick a straw in the coastal shelf and the stuff flows like water from a tap... is criminally stupid.
Get out of the way. It will cost the government nothing, the investment will come from private sources. They’ll put thousands to work. Companies all over the state and all over the country will go to work fabbing tools and equipment. They’ll all be paying taxes, income taxes, sales taxes, every kind of tax a statist mind can devise, and whats more the oil itself will generate royalty payments right into the treasury.
Or, you can sit paralized and bankrupt and stew about another penny in sales tax like thats going to save you as businesses and workers flee the state in caravans.
I understand. If we were granted license to change article titles, I would have tried to make it a bit more accurate.
Hmmmmm, I remember him as an anti conservative guy that mocked us that didn't buy into his liberal visions, but if she thinks that Wilson was better than the two term Ronald Reagan then I guess we can accept that she is speaking from her corporate, Mitt Romney heart.
I know. It’s a hit piece, but it’s pretty misleading. Not your fault. What a mess this race is though. I don’t feel good about either candidate.
Huh? Stupid c*nt! We all know who the greatest California governor was. And he sure as hell was NOT little Petey!
Meg just thinks of them as final value fees :]
I think Californians better get ready to leave en masse.
If the republican candidate has no problem with raising fees otherwise known as taxes by 112 billion, you can imagine what the democrats are planning.
You would think Ms. Whitman being a CEO and all would understand that. Guess not.
I think all of these idiots that support stupidity should go live in a country that has no freedom just as the people do.
They should also realize(I know it’s a shock)they are not the elite. They are not special and they have not been selected to tell us what to do.
Please CA try to find someone that can do the right thing.
If Whitman is the Republican candidate I hope the Social Democrat wins. Given the choice of two SocDems I would prefer the one who ears the proper label to win over the one dressed as a Republican.
Jerry Brown!?!
As it stands, Brown will have Ahnold to blame like MaObama has Bush. But the result will be a state that completely fails and becomes THE text book example of why Government should be rebuilt under Conservative Principles from the ground up.
Then they can use their red deficit dollars to pay for their clean green energy to heat and cool their homes and fuel their cars.
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It amazes me that anybody can think CA failing wouldn’t take down the whole country with it.
Greece represents only 2% of the EU GDP, and look what a panic ensued at the thought of it going insolvent.
CA is 17% of America’s GDP. It grows more food than any other state in the country. Failing is not an option.
It is also completely unnecessary. Just these few simple things would balance the budget and make all the voters TAXPAYERS again ... with a stake in LOWERING SPENDING because it is the only way to get lower taxes.
If the sales tax rate was lowered from 10% to 5% but included everything like services and groceries, and the income tax was lowered from marginal rates as high as 10% down to a flat 5% for everyone with no deductions — and only applied to individuals and NOT corporations — we would have MORE tax revenue while attracting businesses and high-earners back to the state.
A Republican should run on policies that will bring the wealthy and businesses (also known as ‘employers’) back to the state, not catering to the masses that have gotten used to free government goodies while paying no taxes. Wouldn’t you rather have wealthy neighbors than poor neighbors ?
Broadening the 5% sales tax to include rents and groceries would hit illegal aliens hard compared to the existing system where virtually nothing they spend money on is taxable and they paid no income tax working illegally.
Set up a right-to-work database keyed off your thumbprint and require it at the DMV thereby eliminating use of false employment ID and fake drivers licenses, and the illegals would leave in droves.
I, for one, totally endorse your set of proposals. Glad to see them laid out so clearly and affirmatively.
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