CA: Booze tax proposed for trauma care

Sac Bee ^ | 12/13/02 | John Hill

[blackbart.223]

"It's very interesting that no one ever says what you suggest."Control The Spending" in your state and things are bound to get better."Control Spending"? A fine idea that no legislator anywhere in the USA wants to hear."

Major conservative bump.

[blackbart.223]

"There is no comparable Constitutional right "cooncerning" alcohol."

At least not in your case.

[tubebender]

It is similar to a bill Romero proposed in the last legislative session to help cover a $23.6 billion state budget shortfall. Now the state faces an even bigger gap, approaching $30 billion. Romero said Thursday

Watch the bouncing budget ball as it bounds ever higher.

Why shucks, let's tax food because because it causes increased traffic on our under funded road system as people shop for their families.

[Badger1]

Good for you buffyt. Im sure you are not the last one to leave the Peoples Republic of California and their "Progressive" government's progress on the road to socialism.

[CA Conservative]

Okay, so my fingers get dyslexic when I am in a hurry - GMAB!

[blackbart.223]

"Okay, so my fingers get dyslexic when I am in a hurry."

As do mine from time to time.

No one is perfect.

[seenenuf]

25 cents a bottle! Idiots. They could pay off the state deficit, if they put a penny tax on every tortilla!

[seenenuf]

25 cents a bottle! Idiots. They could pay off the state deficit, if they put a penny tax on every tortilla!

[FITZ]

I wonder how much of the $13 billion dollars going to Mexico is from California and wasn't declared as income to be taxed?

[seenenuf]

I wonder why the US Post Office and/or the Controller of Currency doesn't require a wiring bank to get SS #'s, to make a data entry at the IRS, of amount being sent out of country. Wouldn't that new reg be Fox's worst nightemare.