Posted on 03/17/2006 8:02:44 PM PST by FairOpinion
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger recognized that California must raise huge amounts of revenue to pay for public projects that are essential to the state's future well being. That is why in his State of the State address in January he proposed a $222 billion package of infrastructure improvements to be financed by state bonds and federal funds.
While the bond measure being considered lacked important elements, it also accumulated a list of projects that are unrelated to basic infrastructure or are highly inefficient.
Attached to the bond measure were funds for low-income housing, parks and a high-speed train. While some of these projects may be worth consideration, they hardly can be considered basic infrastructure.
What California must have now are better roads, schools and water projects. Meeting these three basic needs will be costly and should have greater urgency than parks, housing or a highly suspect high-speed rail line.
Parks, housing and rail lines should be addressed in separate bond measures or legislation. They should not be allowed to encumber bond measures for essential infrastructure needs.
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(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Reading your posts, I've come to the conclusion that you are the socialist on this board but you love to paste that handle on anyone who doesn't agree with you. I don't fear what you call me and I don't think Amerigomag does either. Your kool-aid has a bitter after taste and no one here will drink it.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Los Angeles County might be better prepared to meet its local needs if Sacramento, and particularly the Wilsonegger administration, hadn't siphoned off increasingly larger percentages of local property taxes. The issue came to a head when the Wilsonegger gang reinstated the General Fund, VLF subsidy and then refused to give Los Angeles County their fair share of the diverted property taxes. When sued, the gang didnt even contest the suit, they were so far off base. They simply paid the money back, without interest.
Los Angeles County wouldn't be in the financial problems that they are in if they stopped welcoming illegal aliens and their anchor babies who, by in large, pay neither income or property taxes yet contribute to over 25% of the cost of local, law enforcement and its administration. With a Mexican anchor baby as the mayor of its largest city, that attitude and LA County's official posture is not likely to change.
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