Union-backed marchers present lawmakers with $40 billion budget proposal

SacBee ^ | 4/23/10 | Don Smith

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Public employee-union backed marchers arrived at the Capitol this week after 48 days on the road from Bakersfield, presenting lawmakers with their state budget recommendations Thursday – $40 billion in tax increases and loophole closures they said will avoid service cuts and balance the budget for years to come.

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Ironic to keep their pay and jobs they want to take income away from fellow Calif. This is how Calif decides if you are rich or not in the 5th and 65h tier on income. If your income range is between $47,056 and $1,000,000, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 9.3%. If your income range is $1,000,001 and over, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 10.3%.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Either California goes to war against its unions or it goes to bankruptcy court.

[GeronL]

Raise taxes on government employees!

[WOBBLY BOB]

California’s $500-billion pension time bomb (The staggering amount of unfunded debt)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2487536/posts

One of the best sites around for news about CA inpending pension-driven doom:

http://www.pensiontsunami.com/public.php

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“We will be creating a governing coalition for the long term, not just for an election cycle.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK7K0itgQt0

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’ve always said that unions were the foundation that communism is built on. It seems as though I was right. It has always pissed me off the way unions use the American flag as a prop.

[Ben Mugged]

Unions are the storm troopers of socialism.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Don’t ask me to write them a check.

[benewton]

Fruits, nuts or flakes...

Did a contract assignment there, and the description fits what I saw.

Still, it works, since they crap in their own bed and not
in ours,

No bucks or aid of any type, of course, but since they’d determined that sinking was the way to go, who are we to stop them?

[OB1kNOb]

It makes me wonder if the next civil war here will be waged between government workers who will demand to keep their lucrative jobs and pensions and entitlement program parasites versus all other workers out there actually producing something who are fed up paying increasingly onerous taxes to support such a massive number of government leeches.

[mlocher]

This was not a budget. It was a tax increase proposal.

[FormerACLUmember]

Ireland is in a similar hole as California.

The Irish solution?

Simple: a 10% accross the board cut in public employee salaries.

Problem solved.

[GilGil]

These people are racists and bigots.

[BradtotheBone]

Union-backed marchers present lawmakers with $40 billion budget proposal???

That’s Rich!!! The very people who got California into this mess has a proposal!!!

[Oldpuppymax]

You mean union STACKED marchers. Notice the SEIU thugs shipped in by the Hussein clan.

[chris_bdba]

Sorry folks but from what I’ve read the majority of taxpayers have already fled the state and those left behind can’t pay anymore.