CA: Wielding a big tax stick

OC Register ^ | 4/13/04 | Op/Ed

[NormsRevenge]

Listening to the histrionics from California legislators regarding the state's ongoing budget crisis, one could almost forget the simple solution to the multibillion-dollar problem: Slow down the spending spree. Stop lavishing taxpayers' dollars on special interest groups at a pace that far exceeds the receipt of revenue. If only the Legislature had the gumption to roll back spending a mere four years, to the early days of the Davis administration, there would be no serious budget problem.

[NormsRevenge]

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[mvpel]

Can't touch me, California - unlike the Soviet Union, you couldn't force me to keep living there.

Best regards from a highly-paid computer professional living sales- and income-tax free in New Hampshire.

[Lancey Howard]

"He (liberal Democrat Steve Westly) also favors creating a 'whistle-blower' program to reward Californians who tip off the state to large tax evaders and conducing audits of tax preparers who knowingly prepare false tax returns."

The "Soviet model"? This sounds more like Hitler and his Nazi brown-shirted youth to me.

[BipolarBob]

Wasn't there also a memo that they wanted all Jews to wear identifyiny markings?







oops/sarcasm -again

[kingu]

Tax amnesties, digging through real estate records to find out if people are reporting all their incomes - Nither of these solutions cut the budget, all they do is employ more people by the state. And those employees of course could never be fired, so we'll have them for thirty years. And when they retire, we'll keep on paying them for another forty years.

The state government needs to be cut as badly if not more badly than then spending spree on programs.

[Kozak]

The "Soviet model"? This sounds more like Hitler and his Nazi brown-shirted youth to me.

Classic Soviet. Block Commisars and informants to keep the Comrades in line.