[SmithL]

Fish gotta swim,

birds gotta fly, and

RATS gotta tax!

[scooby321]

even the Unions know if their are going to be any companies left in California the GOP must have more power.

[4Liberty]

More CA tax base, jobs, headed for Texas. THANKS DUMB SAC-RAT IDIOTS.

[Brilliant]

“Democrats asserted Friday that they had already taken hard votes by slashing universities and various programs for the poor in March.”

Those cruel, shameless Democrats. The first thing they do is cut the safety net for the poor.

[jiminycricket000]

I remember when we used to fight Communism in foreign lands so it wouldn't spread to the U.S. Now we're fighting it on our own shores, cities and towns. Everything I once knew, was taught and instinctually believed has been turned upside down and inside out. When I was young nobody wanted higher taxes, and I mean NOBODY. My father was a Public Works worker for the town, a union member and a Democrat. But when taxes went up he would hit the roof. Good is now bad, bad is now good. Abortion and homosexuality were once frowned upon, now they are not only "human rights", they have been elevated to special protection status, as though they are the seat of glory itself.

All of this is, of course, is a chastisement from God for the sins of loose morals that permeate our country, and the apostacy from Christianity; in other words, the general rebellion against God that has taken place has it consequences, and they are serious. Although we are all sinners in God's eyes, the people who comprise the aforementioned rebellion from the morality of traditioal American virtues are liberals. They hate conservatives because they relate us to those evil Christians who would force them to live their lives within some sort of moral framework, instead of the LICENSE they prefer over duty and goodness.

I really hate to sound like Beck or Hucklebee, but it's just a plain fact.

[tet68]

Well folks, the good news is we aren’t gonna tax you
more.
The bad news is we are gonna let someone ELSE tax you
more.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

The state will collect these taxes and dole it out as they see fit. Just like they do with sales taxes.

[fella]

So nobody in California has a plan to downsize government and spend less? I guess not because as Glenn Beck would say “Why that Would be.... KAa-Ray-Zee!”.

[bert]

-—If there was a pain-free option to balancing the budget, we would have passed it months ago-—

There is a pain free option for not balancing the budget..... death

A dead state no longer feels pain

[catnipman]

Actually, this bill will never be signed into law. Rationatate legislators
and governors fiercely guard their prerogatives for raising taxes and
spending revenues. It’s how they exercise their power, reward their
friends, punish their enemies and buy votes.

If they let local governmental entities have essentially unlimited
power to raise and spend their own local revenue, then those
governmental entities no longer even need a state legislature or
governor.

Furthermore, unlimited local revenue raising powers is anathema to true socialists because richer districts can raise all the money they need to spend locally without having to to subsidize the poorer districts through state levies that are redistributed by the state.

This bill represents a complete decentralization of the taxing and spending authority of the state and divestment of the state government of its principal power.

(Oh, and in the extremely unlikely event this bill DOES make it into law, then I’ve grossly underestimated just how stupid California’s Democrat state legislators and governor really are!)