Posted on 03/16/2011 9:35:07 AM PDT by Nachum
There are a few very interesting points below headlines today claiming California residents strongly support extending the state’s once temporary tax increases via special election.
Survey finds Californians back tax extensions
Californians would overwhelmingly back extending temporary tax increases to help balance the state’s budget if asked to in a special election, according to survey results released on Wednesday.
The survey found that, by a 58 percent to 39 percent margin, voters said they would vote in favor of a ballot measure asking them to extend temporary tax increases.
If that’s truly the case, then why did voters flatly reject the same thing as recently as 2009.
His strategy is risky. Voters already overwhelmingly rejected extending the temporary vehicle, sales, and income taxes in May 2009, months after lawmakers and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger enacted them.
Enter the Labor Unions. Got that?
The same unions that elected Brown are going to pull out all the stops to campaign for tax increases, including ones that will hit their own members, rather than risk reducing government spending, forcing Brown to make tough choices that might hurt him with Democrat special interest groups. And in the process, business and taxpayers would get the shaft, as many of boths are fleeing the state already. That isn’t a solution. It’s a suicide pact for California, which will eventually want to come to the federal government for a bail-out at our expense. Just imagine how hard they are going to fight for Obama in 2012. The whole California system is corrupt.
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Well hell. Why stop at extending current increases? Go ahead and add a bunch more. I am sure CA voters will welcome them with open arms given their voting habits.
When States Collapse
Unions are there.
No to taxes and fire 50% of government employees!!!
It is amazing how some people with screwed up lives want to tell you how to run your life. This attitude goes well beyond paying taxes.
“I’m predicting even in liberal CA, this will go down in a colossal defeat.”
You’re wrong, the welfare anf government leaches(workers) outnumber the working class by a large number and will vote the increases.
The welfare leaches don’t pay the, only collect the benefits and the union government leaches know that they will get far more than they have to pay.
They reelected Boxer and a dead man to the State Legislature. They could vote for more Taxes if their Dem. leaders told them to do it. I think the intelect of CA Voters using a “Fog Index” is about a “4”.
-PJ
In other news, the sun came up this morning!
Unions don’t care if taxes are raised on the general public as long as they get what they want. What they don’t tell their members is that taxes will be raised on them also. They also expect the general public to pay for all their health care and retirement programs.
“I’m predicting even in liberal CA, this will go down in a colossal defeat.”
I am not too sure about that. The unions have a well oiled “turn out the vote” machine. The welfare leeches and illegal aliens will be bussed to the polls in large numbers.
Fortunately the Republicans in the legislature are hanging tough and will not let the tax increase extension get to the ballot.
I’d love to see the demographic breakdown of this poll. I suspect that many of the ‘pro-tax increase’ group are people that pay little to no taxes and get all the handouts.
Unions have always been organized for the intent of getting 100% of what they wanted even if they have to lose 10% like the rest of the public.
Unions have always been organized for the intent of getting 100% of what they wanted even if they have to lose 10% like the rest of the public.
If that’s truly the case, then why did voters flatly reject the same thing as recently as 2009.
The reason is simple. Voting in a survey for FREE pie-in-the-sky is NOT the same as voting to have to pay the check.
DUH ! ! ! !
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