Gov. Brown's taxes costly, less popular

The Orange County Register ^ | 3-8-2012 | Orange County Register editorial boarad

[landsbaum]

The huge tax increases proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown are becoming much less popular as voters learn more about them. At the rate of decline in popularity over just the past two months, there may be no one left in California who will vote for the higher taxes by the time November balloting arrives, save, of course, Mr. Brown and the principal beneficiaries, public employee union members to whom he panders.

Meanwhile, an analysis by the state Board of Equalization, which handles state business taxes, has weighed the impact of the governor's higher taxes and found them quite costly. The proposed half-cent sales-tax increase alone would "cost Californians thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in lost investment," says board member George Runner, a Republican...

[tflabo]

Ca. Lieberals vote for their Dems with gusto-—knowing full well they love raising taxes. Now that MoonBeam is moving that ball foward you’d think the fawning Libs would buy into it wholesale. How unpatriotic of them Libs balking at new taxes. (;

[Argus]

CA voters also regularly pass referenda that are diametrically opposed to the way they vote on candidates and judges - Prop 8 is a good example. They are strange schizoid zombies.

[Signalman]

No on taxes!

[newzjunkey]

As a genera rule, California voters do not like higher taxes. They do like borrowing via bond measures.

They vote Democrat because the Republican brand in CA has been destroyed by suicide over the past 20 years.

[Mark]

Some times I hope that they raise sales taxes a lot without anything on a ballot, just so more people wake up to what the DEMOCRATS do.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

The tax props went down to flaming defeat last time. And back then gas wasn’t $5/gallon. Maybe if gasoline was $1/per gallon, Joe Sixpack would raise a tax or two instead of seeing all his money going to feed his one ton dually.

The turnips are not in the mood to be bled further.

[MasterGunner01]

Let's recap: CA has lost approximately 650 business moving out of state from 2009 to 2011. These are the ones big enough to be registered on the State's radar and doesn't take into account the ones too small to count or have gone belly-up. It doesn't account for the individuals who've packed up and left either.

Problem: The State of CA is broke.

Solution: Raise taxes and add more anti-business regulations.

Problem: Business and taxpayer flight accelerates.

Solution: More of what continues to fail.

Einstein was correct — repeating the same act over and over again in the hopes of a different result IS insanity.

[MasterGunner01]

Let's recap: CA has lost approximately 650 business moving out of state from 2009 to 2011. These are the ones big enough to be registered on the State's radar and doesn't take into account the ones too small to count or have gone belly-up. It doesn't account for the individuals who've packed up and left either.

Problem: The State of CA is broke.

Solution: Raise taxes and add more anti-business regulations.

Problem: Business and taxpayer flight accelerates.

Solution: More of what continues to fail.

Einstein was correct — repeating the same act over and over again in the hopes of a different result IS insanity.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Indeed, and the California electorate is stark raving mad, and suicidal to boot.

[hal ogen]

It makes for interesting observing...from afar. Most Californians are suicidal, I guess.