Posted on 04/13/2011 8:23:52 AM PDT by SmithL
SACRAMENTO -- Assembly Speaker John Perez insisted Tuesday that closing the state's remaining $15 billion deficit with spending cuts is out of the question, and vowed to step up pressure on Republicans to relax their anti-tax stance.
"Talking about an all-cuts approach is in essence an exercise in futility," the Los Angeles Democrat said at a Capitol press briefing.
Perez said he will be seeking new revenues through a two-thirds vote that could be ratified by voters later -- a departure from Gov. Jerry Brown's vow to take any tax proposal to the people for a vote.
"I'm not the governor and I didn't make that promise," Perez said. "The approach the governor had was an admirable one and one we supported, giving the voters a vote by June 7. What happened was Republicans ran out the clock on that option."
A constitutionally required two-thirds vote on taxes through the Legislature would require two Republicans in the Assembly and two in the Senate -- a tough assignment, evident by Brown's inability to get those votes in seeking merely to approve a special election on tax extensions on sales, income and vehicles.
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fish gotta swim, andRats gotta TAX!
Dims: Increase tax revenue by REDUCING TAX RATES!
“giving the voters a vote by June 7.”
Why bother? When the voters tell them “no” they go ahead and do what they want anyway.
Having met some Northern Californians and moved amongst the government types in Sacramento, I believe that it will take some sort of unnatural act to get sanity back in the Golden State.
I beg to differ. We are talking about Californians here. Raise all their taxes. They elected dems from top-to-bottom, front-to-back. Give’em what they voted for.
You are correct that we get the government we deserve. I do hope CA does not raise taxes, however, simply for the sake of the good limited gov't people that there. God, after all, spared a city for the sake of a single righteous man. (My tongue is poking through my cheek at this time.)
Assembly Speaker John Perez...
Um hmmm - stopped reading right there
Who cares what that fat poofter Perez says. The state constitution requires a two thirds vote in both houses of the state legislature to raise taxes. The marxists don’t have the votes.
Sure, there'd certainly be justice to it if we could KEEP them there. But, you don't want LOCUSTS in your neighborhood, do you?
Just cut spending. Forget the raising taxes stuff. Cut spending. Cut spending. Cut spending...
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