Posted on 07/14/2010 8:08:27 PM PDT by WriteStuff
July 1 came and went in Sacramento without so much as a whimper. We Californians are so used to our legislature not doing its job that missing the Constitutional deadline for passage of a state budget was just another day for the Tarnished State. No longer is California "The Golden State." I began calling it "The Tarnished State" several months ago in my blog.
As if missing the budget deadline weren't enough, our comedic Governor went on YouTube to call for the elimination of redundancies in state government. Uhm… okay. Many of us have been screaming about this for decades, but since you bring it up…
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Could you repeat that?
Any way, the author does not get redistribution of wealth. If locals kept their tax dollars local, who would pay for the necessary give-aways, I mean programs, where much of the population is given the state benefits without paying taxes?
In my county 93% of businesses employ less than 20 people. The largest employers are federal state and local government. We are “governing” our businesses into a death spiral, eating out their profit margin. Also, local government has closed most libraries and is severely cutting police and fire. Yet there is money to maintain several full-time state water quality folks and fish and game enforcement people to “eat out our substance.”
Isn’t it a little too soon for Arnold to be reducing the size of Kalifornia government? It’s not even been seven years since his election. He really shouldn’t rush into things.
Yes, the product of fewer producers does not support the livelyhood of non-producers forever, eventually other people’s money runs out.
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