Posted on 11/07/2012 7:37:04 AM PST by Hojczyk
California will avoid deep spending cuts to public schools and universities, and be able to to pull out of the fiscal swamp without slashing other services further, after voters handed Gov. Jerry Brown's signature tax measure a decisive victory Tuesday.
Proposition 30 had a clear lead Wednesday morning, with 95 percent of precincts around the state counted.
Voters handily rejected a rival measure, Proposition 38.
Brown's tax measure has been his central focus since his election two years ago and will have major implications for the state's finances. If it had been defeated, nearly $6 billion in automatic spending cuts, falling almost entirely on public schools, would have been automatically enacted under the budget approved by lawmakers earlier this year.
Prop. 30 will raise the sales tax by one penny for every $4 spent for four years, while increasing the income tax on the state's highest earners for seven years. It would generate about $6 billion per year. The sales tax hike will go into effect Jan. 1, while the personal income tax increase is retroactive to the beginning of this year.
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people who dumped on Romney during the campaign like yourself and others are part of the reason bammey won...
you should be so proud of yourself...
I didn’t think CA would dive off that cliff with gusto. It’s way to easy to blame the voters. it’s their government.
Romney was a liberal - a liberal is not going to win elections in this country.
The Democrats can always play the “gimme more” game better than Republicans do. And I don’t regret not voting for him.
Bob Filner, the elderly retiring Dem congressman, the registered socialist son of a Communist Party USA activist won the mayor's race against the controversial gay Republican reformer councilman Carl DeMaio.
It looks like Brian Bilbray was redistricted out of congress. He's show as losing by fewer than 700 votes. As a San Diego native, "Congressman Scott Peters" is as terrorizing as "Mayor Bob Filner."
I think we can stick a fork in the (former) Republican city of San Diego. We've crossed the tipping point; the unions have captured it for the Democrats.
Sorry but being MORE conservative would not have moved the mountain stacked against conservatism. Too you maybe but not the entire nation. It no doubt has shifted left with the new demographics coming in and some of the old one standing behind things like abortion, gay marriage and pot. The social issues are becoming an albatross. Single issue voters imho are swinging elections now...
As a CA native, that's exactly what the results of Nov. 6, 2012, told me.
It's often been said, "so goes CA, so goes the nation." GOP have their LAST warning on the immigration problem. As WRONG, as IMMORAL as Bush "amnesty" is, our halting his attempts may be the national equivalent of Prop 187 which set ablaze the GOP brand in CA.
Romney ran a strong campaign on traditional American values.
There's no logic to your claim that a "liberal" Republican can't win vs a Democrat while a conservative can. Either voters want "liberal" policies or they want "conservative" policies.
We've heard the same poppycock about CA yet Tom McClintock never won statewide. But that was never his fault, it was always the voters. Please. Find some consistency rather than continue this destructive path of cognitive dissonance.
People were simply voting for free stuff last night, be it ObamaPhone, EBT, EITC....
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