[Malone LaVeigh]

Brown, who promised voters while campaigning in 2010 that he would end years of budget trickery in Sacramento, acknowledged that he was relying on "one-time revenues to handle one-time problems."

He added: "This is the best that I could do."

Temporary taxes ... Riiiight!

[twister881]

“I’ll only stick it in an...oh, never mind...”

[unkus]

Temporary taxes ... Riiiight!

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You beat me to it.

[getarope]

Nothing is as permanent as a “temporary tax”!

[GeronL]

lol

Its NOT a revenue problem

[mongo141]

Who does that @$$hole think he is fooling, Oh never mind that was a self answering question.

[MasterGunner01]

No way, Gov. Moonbeam. Here’s brainwave for you: “It’s the SPENDING, stupid.” Ditto to the collective group of mouth-breathing imbeciles in the California legislature.

[Starboard]

To paraphrase a previous Democrat president, it all depends on what the meaning of the word ‘temporarily’ is.

[forgotten man]

If California has enough money to spend on the bullet train to Fresno why do we need a tax increase? I seriously think Brown has dementia.

[EGPWS]

Jerry Brown's plea to voters: 'Please increase taxes temporarily'

Yeah, Minnesota and Minneapolis are packed with "temporary" taxes that just never seem to go away.

[fieldmarshaldj]

We enacted a temporary sales tax in Tennessee... it’s now about 60 or so years old.

[al baby]

Hey Jerry, I got youTempory Taxs

Right here

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Interesting how cutting the bloated salaries and benefits of the California government workers is never mentioned as a solution.

Since everyone pays sales taxes, I doubt Jerry has the votes to increase sales taxes when the voters hear story upon story of bloated state worker salaries.

[BillyBoy]

>> Jerry Brown warns that cuts will be even more severe if voters reject tax hikes on the November ballot. <<

Why are you waiting months for the regular election to roll around, girlie man?! When I was gubernator, we didn't have to *WAIT* until November to take our case to voters. We pointlessly spent millions of dollars on a SPECIAL ELECTION so I could get voters to act on my proposals NOW! (and they gave me a slap down both times) Cally-forn-ya went without an election in 2011. You disappoint me, Jerry. If fiscally conservative Ahnuld was still in charge, we would have spend at least $380 million on THREE special elections by now!

[luvbach1]

Good luck with those “temporary taxes,” Californians.Oh well, most ‘rat voters won’t be affected by them.

[karnage]

Dear Governor Brown:

No.
Hell no.
[expletive deleted] no!

[Cyman]

Yo, Jerry Moonbeam, don’t blow smoke up my b@tt and then tell me it’s cloudy!

[markman46]

Hey Brown.. what does the words “HELL NO!” mean to you

[tflabo]

Never ever vote by the bl light of the Moon(Beam).

[Savage Beast]

Temporarily???

Hahaha! That's a good one!

[American in Israel]

Without those levies, he said Monday, public schools and community colleges would be sliced by $5.5 billion, and the University of California and California State University systems would be cut by $250 million each. Other popular programs, like lifeguards at state beaches, would also get the ax, for a total of nearly $6.1 billion in extra cuts.

California pays a third of a BILLION DOLLARS in Lifeguard fees!? Let me guess, after all the democratic money laundering handling happens, the Lifeguards are not getting paid a million bucks a year pay.

Just for kicks and grins I looked it up, lifeguards get $200,000 a year in some cities in california. But even at that pay, you would have to have so many lifeguards that parking at the beach would be hard.