Posted on 08/10/2006 11:43:00 AM PDT by TheOracleAtLilac
| McClintock Reviews the November Ballot Propositions | |
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General Election - November 7, 2006 Prop. 1A Transportation Funding Protection: YES! For years, the Legislature has raided our highway taxes for general fund spending. Though it’s more window dressing than relief, this measure makes it marginally harder to do so. Prop. 1B Transportation Bond: NO! Although some of this money is for long overdue road construction, most goes for equipment, maintenance and social programs that will be obsolete decades before our children have finished paying off the debt. Californians pay the third highest tax per gallon of gasoline in the country – and yet we rank 43rd in per capita spending on highways. Our neglected roads are not the taxpayers’ fault. Prop. 1C Housing Bond: NO! Economics 1: When something is plentiful, it’s cheap; when it is scarce, it’s expensive. Housing prices have skyrocketed because governmental regulations have kept the supply of new housing from meeting the demand. By pouring more (borrowed) money into the market without reducing those restrictions, the effect will be to force UP both home prices and taxes. Prop. 1D Education Bond: NO! Five billion dollars of new school spending is apparently not enough – so here comes another school bond. But once again, most of the money is going for stuff that won’t be around when our children are still paying off the debt. Won’t our kids have their own schools to repaint without paying for painting that was done 30 years ago?
Prop. 1E Levee Bond: YES! Almost all of this money goes for levee construction that our great-grandchildren will use. Why should anyone outside of Sacramento care? Collapse of the Delta levees means collapse of the state water project – and billions of dollars of state liabilities paid for by ALL taxpayers. This is a classic ounce of prevention saving a pound of cure. Prop. 83 Jessica’s Law: YES! Placed on the ballot by initiative when the legislature failed to act, this proposition is named for the little Florida girl who was killed by a released sex-offender. Prop. 83 prohibits felony registered sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or park and requires lifetime GPS monitoring. Prop. 84 Park Bond: NO! A grab bag of local pork projects (some exempt from competitive bidding requirements and conflict of interest laws) paid for by a generation of taxpayers. Prop. 85 Parental Notification: YES! Your 16-year-old daughter cannot use a tanning bed or get her ears pierced without your written consent, but she can undergo a surgical abortion without you even being notified. This measure restores your right to know what is happening to your own child. Prop. 86 Cigarette Tax: NO! Why should non-smokers care about a measure that increases the tax on a pack of cigarettes to $2.60? Because it gives smokers a huge incentive to avoid the entire tax by buying cigarettes through friends or family out of state. And who do you think the government will be coming after to make up the resulting drop in cigarette tax collections? Prop. 87 Oil Tax: NO! Just when you thought gasoline taxes were high enough, along comes this gem to increase them more. Another economics lesson: When you tax something, you get less of it and the price goes up. |
Prop. 88 Parcel Tax: NO! Here’s yet another way to get into your pocket: add an extra $50 to your annual property tax bill for still more money for schools. What makes anyone think this money will get any closer to the classroom than the $11,000+ per student we already pump in?
Prop. 89 Taxpayer Funding of Campaigns: NO! I love this one – force taxpayers to foot the bill for politicians’ campaigns. But remember Thomas Jefferson’s warning: "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
If they're important enough, our lazy, corrupt reps should pass 'em in session - w/out putting them before us.
Ping.
I will vote AGAINST ANYTHING that represent more spending, liability to the taxpayers, and more taxes. Taxifornia is near financial death now, having been run into the ground by mindless, power-mad liberals like Gray Davis, and the situation is not changing for the better.
** MCCLINTOK FOR GOVERNOR **
He would be one heck of a good one!!!
Davis' biggest blunder was to think he was Presidential material - phantasmagoria @ it's best !
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Davis' biggest blunder was to think he was Presidential material....
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IMHO, his biggest blunder was allowing the state to slip into RECORD deficits approaching $30 BILLION. He also spent his entire time hustling and extorting campaign dollars as opposed to running California, which, like any liberal, he did not give a damn about. A pure criminal, through and through, he finally got booted, but should have been put in prison for what he, and his lackies, did to California.
Jess "Big Daddy" Unruh - famed by the quote money is the mother's milk of politics.
McClintock Reviews the November Ballot Propositions
Tom McClintock.net ^ | July 28, 2006 | Tom McClintock
Posted on 07/28/2006 9:01:57 PM PDT by calcowgirl
The one that needs a definite YES vote is Proposition 90. I see it isn't on your list, but it is on Tom's site and he is a sponsor.
Prop. 90 Protect Our Homes: YES! Restores the Fifth Amendment property rights protections in the Bill of Rights that the U.S. Supreme Court shredded with its infamous Kelo decision. Prop. 90 prohibits local officials from seizing homes and businesses for the profit of politically well-connected private interests, and requires government to pay you for any damage it does to your property.This is a Constitutional Amendment and therefore can't be passed by the Legislature alone, but must be passed by voters.
Hedgecock announced Tom's site yesterday
I went there but there wasn't a link button to the props.
that's why I dated the publication of same as today.
also, when the page loaded today, prop 90 didn't display
Ya think it has anything to do w/ my blazing fast connection of 26.4 kbps ?
That's what I would have done, too. I received an email notification the day I posted it. Otherwise, I might have missed it.
also, when the page loaded today, prop 90 didn't display -- Ya think it has anything to do w/ my blazing fast connection of 26.4 kbps ?
LOL! Maybe! Did ya ever consider 'hi speed internet'? ;-)
Prop 90 is still there, but oddly there is almost 5 vertical inches of white space between it and Prop 89 so it is easy to miss!
I'll vote yes on 85 and 90. The rest can rot.
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