[NormsRevenge]

We shall see soon enough how dumbed down the voters are in California.

[NormsRevenge]

Prime Grade A Crap!

[headsonpikes]

Did these deep-thinkers ever consider budgeting as part of the budget solution?

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[pogo101]

They Just Don't Get It.® Employers and the wealthy, upon whom 90-plus percent of the burdens of these raised taxes would fall,

ARE PORTABLE.

They have moved in the past, and more still are poised to move further.

Idaho? Nevada? Arizona? Texas? even Washington and Oregon?

You may soon need more real estate agents, 'cause it looks like California's tryin' to export MORE jobs.

[Cicero]

Arnold has only two things going for him: popularity, and fiscal conservatism. A lot of conservatives held their noses to vote for him because he is pro-abort and pro-perversion. If he gives up on fiscal conservatism it will leave him with nothing, and stick California with another Pete Wilson fiasco.

To be fair, Arnold inherited a very, very difficult budget picture. There was no way to climb out of the hole Gray Davis left him without major pain. But so far he has been unwilling to bite the bullet and do what needed to be done. When pain has to be inflicted on the voters, it's always best to hit them hard right at the start and get it over with. He just hasn't done that.

Instead it's more borrowing, more taxes, and more empty promises.

[goldstategop]

Its a good day when the Sacramento Bee true to form, looks for any hint Arnold has "grown" in office. They hope tax increases will be part of the budget picture. Apart from their renowed Capitol correspondent Daniel Weintraub who makes sense most of the time, they're a bunch of whiny overpaid liberal slobs who think Sacramento is the solution to all the state's problem. Of course they live in a parallel universe which is why the public ignores them. People here aren't as dumb as the rest of the country makes them out to be.

[cartoonistx]