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California's Liberal Supermajority: Taxpayers are going to get all the government they ever wanted
The Wall Street Journal ^ | November 8, 2012 | Editorial

Posted on 11/09/2012 8:22:14 AM PST by EveningStar

For Republicans unhappy with Tuesday's election, we have good news—at least most of you don't live in California. Not only did Democrats there win voter approval to raise the top tax rate to 13.3%, but they also received a huge surprise—a legislative supermajority. Look out below.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; democrats; supermajority
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To: EveningStar
Well you might as well start getting accustomed to the new spelling of California: Καλιφόρνια
21 posted on 11/09/2012 8:47:07 AM PST by paterfamilias
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To: sanjuanbob

“The good news is that taxpayers from every other state won’t be on the hook to bailout California.”

Only because the rest of the country is broke. Like Thatcher said we’ve now run out of other people’s money. But we could see helicopter Ben to the rescue.


22 posted on 11/09/2012 8:48:27 AM PST by ScottfromNJ
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To: EveningStar

Since the teachers union owns all the Dem legislators the CTA is now the defacto ruler of the state. Nothing passes without their say so.


23 posted on 11/09/2012 8:51:49 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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To: CriticalJ

“And please do not migrate to another state.”

Don’t have to worry about me, I’m not leaving. But your comments are interesting since there are at least a third of us who are not Liberals. Question:
Did your state go for Obama? What will you do when it goes Liberal if it has’t already? Talk about Obama and “class warfare,” you are just like him!


24 posted on 11/09/2012 8:52:22 AM PST by vette6387
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To: EveningStar

I live here, and so does my family.

I am from the East Coast originally, and understand red state mentality, which I have here.

The bottom line is that there are millions of third worlders. Plain and simple. It is over here, done. I am listing my home next week with a Realtor. People here do not and are encouraged to NOT speak English and are ENCOURAGED to go on Social Services (Section 8, food stamps, AFDC, TANF, job fairs, college grants, Obamaphones...they have billboard signs in the barrio and ghetto ASKING people to sign up - courtesy of the taxpayer).

Cloward and Piven moving at 120 MPH with no brakes. Immigration unchecked, unchecked illegal voting, unchecked union power.

Jerry Brown is an unmitigated Marxist who can now force everyone to pay for his unions to rape the Treasury.

My taxes (small biz) just went up 2% retroactively to January 2012 for the “children” - (they used an apple in the Prop. 30 ads). This is to backfill State pensions and healthcare costs.

They will not stop. It’s over. I am looking for work now out of state.


25 posted on 11/09/2012 8:54:25 AM PST by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: from occupied ga

“And 0bama will not hesitate to spend your money to bail out has supporters in the Peoples’ Democracy of Kalifornistan when they claim their revenues fell under their projections”

Oh he may try, the only problem is with a State that size taxpayers don’t have that kind of money, and it’s doubtful we can borrow that kind of money through treasury sales, unless helicopter Ben steps in.


26 posted on 11/09/2012 8:55:25 AM PST by ScottfromNJ
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To: sanjuanbob
The good news is that taxpayers from every other state won’t be on the hook to bailout California. The pain shall be within her own borders.

1)California will demand that it be rescued by the government to prevent it from turning into a zone or anarchy,or a disgrace to America, and to prevent a world-wide financial panic.
2) The United States treasury will be authorized to make a direct loan to the state so that interest payments can be resumed. This will done with money created out of thin air by the Fed.This money will be taken from the taxpayer through the loss of purchasing power.
3) There will be austerity programs for California, and a systematic repayment schedule,but none of these will be honored.
4)And California will continue to be a welfare/libtard utopia.

27 posted on 11/09/2012 8:58:14 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: EveningStar

If you live in CA, better get out while u can. I would no be surprised if
CA enacts an exit tax soon.


28 posted on 11/09/2012 9:00:13 AM PST by tennmountainman
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To: vette6387

I live in Riverside County, Southern CA. We went republican this time..usually do, after losing to Obama in 2008 and Clinton in 2002.

That being said, I’m out of here. Putting house on market before end of year and going where people who think like me live. Housing will probably drop 25% over the next 3 years.

Not a native kalifornian, so those in other states need not be afraid.


29 posted on 11/09/2012 9:03:24 AM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: EveningStar

Me: Moving out of CA Dec 01. See ya’. It’s been a nice 40 years and I am glad I was able to live part of my life in a true paradise.

Suggestion for a new CA theme song: Rolling Stones [Because I used to love you] But It’s All Over Now.


30 posted on 11/09/2012 9:12:37 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (This stuff we're going through now, this is nothing compared to the middle ages.)
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To: sanjuanbob

“Not a native kalifornian, so those in other states need not be afraid.”

I am a native-born Californian ( San Francisco) and I am proud of it!
There are lots of part of California that are very nice places to live despite the RATs. I for one, am glad that the “majority” is now absolute because we will see very quickly that they will financially crash the state and the idiots who voted for them will suffer greatly!


31 posted on 11/09/2012 9:13:30 AM PST by vette6387
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To: EveningStar

HA, Ha, Ha, all those immigrants from Mexico and China that have been rooted in California, but want their family and friends to come too, are going to take it up their collective rears so they can fund the illegal alien invasion, they elected Obama, let them get on their knees and bow down to their elite, Democratic politicians, kiss their feet aliens, your their property now! A hyphenated herd of cattle whipped by their libtard masters Ha, Ha, Ha!


32 posted on 11/09/2012 9:15:53 AM PST by IslamE (epiphany)
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To: EveningStar
.... Well folks .... Here's a big News Flash for you all ...... As of Nov 6th 2012 ..... you are all Kalifornians now.
33 posted on 11/09/2012 9:19:01 AM PST by R_Kangel ( "A Nation of Sheep ..... Will Beget ..... a Nation Ruled by Wolves.")
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To: vette6387

I am a native-born Californian ( San Francisco) and I am proud of it!
________________________________________________________

Glad you expanded on your post, because the first part above would raise a lot of eyebrows.


34 posted on 11/09/2012 9:19:26 AM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: vette6387
now absolute because we will see very quickly that they will financially crash the state and the idiots who voted for them will suffer greatly

You won't see because the media will do everything in their power to cover it up. And the idiots that voted for them are probably NOT the people who are going to get it in the shorts.

35 posted on 11/09/2012 9:25:54 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: EveningStar

If conservatives were like liberals, they would push for the most extreme and use the oppression without mercy against citizens until the beast poisoned itself.

For example, when we came up with protection of schools from gang members attending and hurting kids, leftists came up with “zero tolerance” where if a child even draws a war scene, he is kicked out of school.


36 posted on 11/09/2012 9:31:46 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: sanjuanbob
Raising taxes will not fix the spending problems California is having. They will just continue to spend more now that they think they can get more money from the "rich". They have already reached the point of diminishing returns and will likely see less revenue generated than if they hadn't raised the rates.

Anyone who has the resources and the opportunity to get out is already headed for the border. The ones who don't have to pay for it will continue to stream in to take advantage of the "free stuff". The result is more demand for more government with fewer people to pay for it.

37 posted on 11/09/2012 9:32:08 AM PST by eggman (End the Obama occupation of the White House!)
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To: CriticalJ

They’ll move on and continue the destruction like locusts. Upper middle class liberals tend to move out of areas they destroy and then continue voting liberal. There’s an endless supply of Philadelphia escapees in my relatively conservative county supporting Democrats.


38 posted on 11/09/2012 9:42:17 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters (I'm anti-socialism because I'm anti-slavery.)
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39 posted on 11/09/2012 9:42:57 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
California has a new toll road system. You have to purchase a special box that has on it a switch for one, two, or three persons. Without the box if you accidently make a mistake and you take the road the fine is over three hundred. If the box says two and you are alone, the Highway Patrol, will issue a ticket and the fine is reduced but you still pay a fine. There is more but how much more of this horse shit do we have to take. And who own California, bureaucrats or we the people.

We need a new proposition next voting cycle to prohibit all toll roads. And a complete takeover of the private toll road with no payoff. Who in the hell does this State belong to anyway? F government.

40 posted on 11/09/2012 9:46:19 AM PST by Logical me
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