[calcowgirl]

Did ya see this one?

"The key is not to crank government spending down," said Tom Campbell... "It's just to spend no more than we have."

Among the main backers of the initiative that lifted the Gann limit are the business groups that helped write Schwarzenegger's Proposition 76.

Current law already prohibits them from spending more than they have! They also are prohibited from borrowing more money--unless people approve the fine print in Prop 76 to allow them to borrow more.

[SierraWasp]

I'm tellin ya... These Moderates stay up nights trying to find ways to beat down good, solid, basic, fundamental conservative commonsense!

They're just so G.D. exasperating I don't even wanna talk about em anymore tonite! They go through life thinkin it's so smart to be neither hot, nor cold, right or wrong, forward or backward, adamant nor moderate... no! Wait!! Fergediboutit!!! (I just went to bed)

[goldstategop]

That would be the ones that authorized transportation funds, right? These same business groups want to make it easier to raise parcel taxes on property in the future. Let's see: they don't mind tax protections for themselves but they want the little guy to pay through the nose for their pet projects. If we have borrowing, its inevitable we'll have tax increases down the road. It all has be paid for and it won't paid for through spending cuts.

("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")