Our inept Rat-infested legislature can't do their job, so we are going to punt back to the voters ... where you can either raise taxes or cut services ... but you can't touch pension payouts for union members
Our inept Rat-infested legislature can't do their job, so we are going to punt back to the voters ... where you can either raise taxes or cut services ... but you can't touch pension payouts for union members
I suspect Mitch Daniels is looking at this as an opportunity to pick off some of the top departments in the universities in the California university systems. Sure they got winter in Indiana, but the school buildings are still open, still heated, still paying salaries.
One does hope he makes sure to demand Secret level security clearances though.
And so the Sun sets on Never-neverland...
I rather suspect that this is just teeing things up for a run at demanding a federal bailout - no doubt that would be handled as a “dire emergency” for which the lame-duck Congress would be called back into session to hand out more “free” money to the socialists and unions that’ve ruined California.
In 2010, CA veered hard left while FL elected more conservatives from top to bottom.
The next few years will make the two states an interesting study in contrasts.
“The previous legislature spent us into a hole and we will have to dig us out. “
“Uhhh....that analogy doesn’t make any sense and you are the previous legislature”
As long as they have ink in their printers they have money.
Don’t worry. They will just raise taxes on the rich. The common people won’t notice a thing! :)
JERRY: You should just do it like a Band-Aid. One motion! Right off!
The unions own California. As long as that is true nothing will be done that will fix the problem.
They can tax 100% of the income (until everyone that produces anything moves) but it will not be enough.
As my tag line says, money is not the problem, it is spending.
I think I’m going to enjoy watching Brown destroy himself. Brings back the image of the Buddhist monk in 1963 Saigon pouring gasoline on himself and striking a match.
http://www.famouspictures.org/mag/index.php?title=Burning_Monk
I seem to recall that many times over the last few decades (ever since the famous Prop 13, which is the first big referendum I remember), CA voters have attempted to limit how much money the politicians can extort from them. Then they elect far left “representatives” to whom it’s a game to spend on every little thing they can think of, then complain that there isn’t enough revenue to cover “vital services” and use that as an excuse to find another way to tax that the voters haven’t already shut off.
CA doesn’t need a bailout, and the Fed doesn’t have the money for it anyway. We’re beginning to see inflation already from all the stimulus and bailouts so far; how much will it accelerate with more bailouts? Let the state of CA keep giving out IOUs, and then, let’s wait and see if the union rank-and-file members keep voting for far left liberals when they figure out that the promises of generous pay, benefits, and pensions can’t be kept. CA is in dire need of sanity. Probably having potential voters show valid IDs to register and vote wouldn’t hurt, either.
Now that the Dems completely control the Kalifornia government, from top to bottom, who will the people blame when it finally collapses in a cloud of IOU’s?..................
Translation: we have enough socialist voters now to overturn Prop 13. Currently CA property taxes are limited to 1% of the property's value per year. In the northeastern states without Prop 13, property taxes run 3 to 4 times this. The money is used to hire ridiculous amounts of lazy union government workers.
Dems are already talking about new taxes.
This is gonna spiral out of control.
Prop 13 is almost certainly on the chopping block, at some point. There’s just too big a gap - the budget deficit is now growing beyond the size of other states’ entire budgets - and rapidly getting worse.
Now that liberals have all the levers - there will be ZERO reduction in any spending.
(not that Arnold was any better in that regard)
Cali is in for a rough ride, economically.
the guy couldn't prioritize the sequence of a cheese toast lets see,to function you NEED: the Police&Courts&CorrectionsDepts / FireDept / CountyClerk / DMV&HighwayMaint / Electric&Water&Sewer...
pretty much ANYTHING ELSE, is a WANT/GIMMIE...
it's not rocket science
Let's see. I do not get welfare or food stamps. I don't have my kids fed for free at school (3 meals). I pay my bills. I pay my taxes. Our roads are sh1t anyway.
I'm not sure what goverment services I care about. Cut 'em all.
Might be helpful reading for conservatives behind the Tofu Curtain. California voters chose their future in November.