CA: Stop the budget bluster

Mercury News ^ | 6/7/03 | Mercury News

[NormsRevenge]

THIS week a Senate-Assembly budget committee began meeting to work out the nitty-gritty of closing the state's $38 billion budget gap.

Meanwhile, the Republican leader in the Senate dug the trenches deeper and put a bayonet to the back of any of his troops who might consider slipping across the lines to make a tax-increase deal with the Democrats.

[NormsRevenge]

FRom yesterday's Murky Noise Ping

[NEWwoman]

temporary half-cent increase in the sales tax

Not such thing.

[FITZ]

Yes and then there's next year's unbalanced budget ----if they don't start slashing government programs.

[Uncle Hal]

The liberal press is beside it self with Brulte's remark. I say good for him. A little warning to keep the troops in line never hurt anyone.

[Grampa Dave]

With the liberals there is never a temporary tax increase, and if they are forced to cut taxes, they want them to be temporary.

At a Christmas Party last year, a dyed in the wool tax and spender was proposing a temporary tax increase to pay for teachers etc, (she is a bureaucrat in education). My normally quiet wife said, "Sure just like the temporary tolls and increases on the Golden Gate Bridge and Bay Bridge." Even the other liberals had to laugh.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[SteveH]

The inevitable theme of every single Mercury editorial in modern times takes the tone of "reason vs. Republicans." The Mercury has never, to my knowledge, considered a tax increase that it did not approve of. Color this Mercury bright red, please!

[Regulator]

The Murky Snooze (or Jerkury Mewz as some here call it) is the weirdest anomaly in all of the Silicon Slum.

Here they are in the land that Venture Capital built, and all they can do is spew endless leftism: taxes are good, Government is all powerful/all knowing, Gray Davis/Ron Gonzales/Willie Brown/Jerry Brown the wisest and most benevolent politicians ever, Republicans all BAD, I mean BAD people, Prop. 13 evil (food from childrens mouths!), etc etc ad nauseum.

It really is strange in a town where some of the most glaring examples of capitalist success are based.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Sorty makes one suspicious of their agenda!

[NEWwoman]

Good points. Spending is the problem.

During World War II, wasn't there a "temporary" tax on tires - for the war effort - and that tax has lasted for 60 + years and still going like the Energizer Bunny?

The cut in the automobile tax the last few years - which Gray so touted his first term - is really temporary. They want to raise it back to the 1998 level.

[goldstategop]

Good luck. I'd like to see them ignite a tax revolt the likes of which they haven't seen since Proposition 13. Let em keep pushing more and more tax increases. Sooner or later something's got to give. The liberals and their media amen corner are in denial.

[roderick]

. . . and cuts to schools and colleges will put a drag on the state's economic growth

Don't raise tuition. Get rid of the lefty, loony-tune, tenured professors and your economy will be better off.

[Sharpshot613]

Exactly...we are still paying the BART tax.

[NormsRevenge]

Yes, it is amazing actually, that the valley has been as successful as it has been with papers like this serving up liebral slop to the masses. It's not a crime.. but it ought to be.