Posted on 10/26/2012 2:03:15 PM PDT by WilliamIII
This is not quite a eulogy for Proposition 30, but with less than two weeks to go until the election and support for the measure slipping under 50 percent in two polls (LAT and PPIC), it's not looking good. Tax hike plans seldom gain votes in the last few days of a campaign, and this one has been losing them for a while. (Here's an FT overview.) One obvious explanation is that Proposition 30 never had a super amount of support to begin with. Maybe it's because voters don't trust legislators to spend their tax money as it's intended to be spent (for good reason).
(Excerpt) Read more at laobserved.com ...
Anyone who votes yes on 30 is a fool.
The government will tax you without asking for your permission every chance it gets. Voting to tax yourself is the acme of folly.
WHY??? CA has a spending problem (corruption), not a tax revenue problem
Really? Then why do they keep voting for Democrats?
4 votes from my household against proposition 30. Also 4 votes for yes on 32.
Prop 38 is going down in flames. Even the union goons aren't publicly supporting it.
Perhaps the people that are going to be hit with it are letting the everyday people they do business with that if it passes, at best, the hittee is going to have to cut back on said everyday business, and at worst, are going to completely remove themselves and their personally directed spending on everyday things to a more hospitable locale out of state.
But I'm sure Gov. Moonbeam with shine his new, but much smaller than anticipated tax receipts their way to make up for the loss in private commerce. After he and his fellow bureaucrats take their cuts, that is.
The mistake they made was the 0.25% sales tax increase, that plus the bad timing of having gas here in CA spike up to $5 really put a crimp in (poor) peoples budget and made even a the small .25% tax seem like too much. Otherwise I believe it would have passed as everyone out here likes having millionaires (those making over $250,000) pay for their free s*** and O-phones.
wait, you telling me that the TAX AND SPEND CALIFORNIANS might vote no to a TAX INCREASE??
CA Voters...if you vote no on 30, please vote NO on Prop ZERO (obama), too...
Cool. Thanks for the response.
Californians always vote against any new taxes, and for any new spending.
The mistake they made was the 0.25% sales tax increase
Yeah, but isn’t that the part that brings in the real money? Taxing the upper middle class — 250k in Cal isn’t rich, sorry — isn’t gonna give the junkies in Sacramento the kind of fix they’re trembling for.
Can’t tell us he needs to raise taxes in order not to cut school budgets while at the same time approving a multi billion dollar high speed rail plan.
“30” is the latest union bailout, 2012.
2 voters in my house SF Valley will vote BIG NO on 30.
Treasurer Bill seems to have lots of money to burn----he gave $1.6 million to help his third wife----thirty-something Nadia-----win a seat as an Alameda County Supervisor. Bill and Nadia had a son they named Diego in honor of Nadia's latino bgrnd. Then his nubile young wife Nadia was found bedded down in a motel w/ a ne'er-do- well she met in rehab.
Lockyer holed up and remained incommunicado.
Treasurer Bill's communications director told the media there was “no comment." adding, "we're in the middle of a $2 billion dollar bond sale to save the state a boatload of money”.........
Oh please----Treasurer Bill is "saving taxpayers money" by issuing a $2 billion bond sale?
REALITY CHECK State-issued bonds mean eternal debt (taxation) inflicted on taxpayers. The bonding agents are making a ton of money off the backs of taxpayers.
Question is how much the treasurer's office is getting? Is Treasurer Bill getting a cut of the action in a sub rosa deal w/ bonding agents?
Did any bonding agents contribute to his campaigns? To Nadia's campaign? To other state politician's campaigns?
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