Posted on 11/12/2012 2:38:47 PM PST by lowbridge
The big news: It looks like voters have handed two-thirds legislative majorities to the Democrats. The state Senate is a sure thing, and final counting will likely yield supermajority control of the Assembly to the Democrats, thanks, in part, to North Orange County voters’ ousting of Assemblyman Chris Norby.
Currently, the only thing standing between California residents and an endless series of bumps in sales taxes, income taxes, gasoline taxes and business taxes has been the constitutional requirement that raising taxes requires a two-thirds vote.
Republicans in California don’t stand for much, but they have mostly stood together in opposition to tax increases. Likewise, Democrats – including the handful of “moderates” – have been unified in their promotion of higher taxes as the answer to California’s problems. Now the Democrats will have their way, early and often.
“It’s time to start anew and to live within our means but at the same time invest in the cornerstone of our future and of our economy, and that’s education,” Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, told CBS News. “I certainly don’t mean to suggest to my colleagues that the first thing we do is go out and raise more taxes,” he said.
Maybe not the first thing, but certainly the second and third things, if Steinberg runs the Senate the way he has up until now. Gov. Jerry Brown and other high-ranking Democrats assured the public that there will be no tax frenzy. As a headline put it, they “vow restraint,” but don’t believe them. Look at the bills the Legislature passed even when tax increases were not assured.
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Jerry Brown looks like Ronald Reagan if you compare him to the democrats who run the state assembly and the state senate. The assembly and the senate have tried to pass bills that will unionize baby sitters. Whatever the unions want the unions will get. Look for the sales tax to get extended to cover services as well all retail sales of non food items. Of course, it will be for the children.
Single handedly? No way. What about the stupid CA voters who elected the socialist toady -- twice! And the greedy unions and big-government political leeches that powered him into office! Brown and Obama are both puppets manipulated by hidden but powerful anti-American interests.
I’m sure Chauchesku wasn’t singly responsible for trashing Romania, either.
If California defaults, they won't go to the US taxpayer, they will go to Obama.
Does that sharpen the picture a little for you??
Triple-dipper
The poster is correct. In CAL Brown is a moderate. The dems now have a super majority in CA assembly and senate and I think that means they can do any thing they want. Constitutional amendment, raise taxes etc.
Everything he ever endeavors to do is to their benefit.
I wonder whats in it for him.
Yea, right. When it’s bad enough, the Feds will just transfer the balance to their sheet and let CA run wild again...
I think in general he is liberal. Jesuit education.
Sometimes he surprises.
I guess he is in the unions pocket. He signed the bill setting up the unions.
Yep, I’ve thought of this too, I will never step foot in California ever again, I have fond memories of it during the eighties and that’s how I want to remember it, I’d rather go to Mexico than that bastion of self-hating whites and libtards!
I expect our business capital will be mostly gone by that point and that high taxes will remain, preventing a recovery.
This is good news for the rest of the country. Better they get the pin numbers from Californians than from those of us in the rest of the country — which is what would have been coming next.
Steinberg will look you in the eye and lie to your face.
Need to change that to 51%.
My mistake. In cali it is 60%.
From the article:
A lot more taxpaying Californians are going to start exploring housing options in Dallas and Houston, now that California voters have figuratively handed over to the Democrats the PIN numbers to their bank accounts.
There's nothing good about this especially if you're in Texas.
Pity for the decent few left in CA but a quickened downfall will speed recovery.
That can be said of Illinois.
there is one thing certain. They won’t be able to blame it on the conervatives.
California is about to boom once again. Didn’t you hear they passed high-speed rail?
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