State Treasurer Phil Angelides is seeking additional tax revenues.
Shame on us all, if we allow him to be elected!
Posted on 04/12/2006 10:20:23 AM PDT by SmithL
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides said Tuesday he would pursue ballot initiatives to close tax loopholes and increase taxes on the state's highest income earners as governor if he cannot persuade the Legislature to approve those changes.
In a meeting with The Bee's Capitol Bureau, Angelides cast education funding as a "moral issue." He accused Democratic rival and state Controller Steve Westly, as well as Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, of lacking fiscal plans to pay for schools and the state's budget deficit.
Angelides, the state treasurer, has staked his own pledges to increase education funding, lower college tuition and solve the state's budget problems on his hope to raise billions of dollars in additional tax revenues to pay for them.
He said it may be difficult as governor to obtain the bipartisan two-thirds vote from the Legislature required to approve tax changes or overturn loopholes. But he said he would "use every chit, every piece of moral suasion, every power I have as governor" to obtain the necessary votes.
"I'm going to take my level-best shot at doing it first with the Legislature and, if necessary, the people of the state at a regular election, not a special election," Angelides said.
"It is a matter of a moral imperative, because I have no doubt the money's there."
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Shame on us all, if we allow him to be elected!
Somebody needs to post a link to that Tom McClintock article from a while back that destroys that ancient liberal myth once and for all.
He's a weasel. No matter how dumb California voters are they will never hire a weasel to lead them.
Oh..please raise my taxes mr weasel!!!
If school funding is a moral issue, then illegal immigration is a moral issue as well.
susie
In a related story, a bear crapped in the woods.....
attaboy. drive more business owners out of the state. great strategy.
Bueler........Bueler...........Farris Bueler....."
With all the illegals, that translates into everyone who makes over $10 bucks an hour.
If illegals and their US born kids were paying their fair share of taxes, taxes for citizens shouldn't have to go up to pay for the illegals' kids' schooling.
Hence, they aren't paying their fair share in taxes.
Give me a job AND pay for my kid.
Yeah, that's the new civil rights.
Ping to #2. Can you help?
Here you go!
Tom McClintock: To understand education budget, start with math
Los Angeles Daily News ^ | May 15, 2005 | Tom McClintock
That's great!
Thanks
CA: The Incredible Shrinking School District - (LAUSD) More taxes for to pay for empty schoolrooms?
www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1613854/posts
He scared me when I met him in person in 1991. I knew he was a dangerous man, even then.
On school budgets, someone shouldDEMAND a full and open audit of where the lottery BILLIONS go - you know the ones that were going to help fund education!""
Kalifornia is spending over $8000/pupil statewide. They still cannot graduate kids who can pass a simple "exit exam". A school district in San Fran area is voting to defy the law about the exit exam and give their pupils a diploma. Only one school board member had the guts to stand up to the kids and parents and tell them the pupils had a duty and job to show up for school and apply themselves to learning.
Not many whites in the room of protestors.
Vote for me! I'll raise your taxes!
Tom McClintock: To understand education budget, start with math
Los Angeles Daily News ^ | May 15, 2005 | Tom McClintock
Posted on 05/16/2005 2:24:48 PM PDT by calcowgirlCA: A Modest Proposal for Saving Our Schools [We pay for solid-gold schools. Let's create some]
Tom McClintock email news | May 17, 2005 | Tom McClintock
Posted on 05/17/2005 8:42:20 AM PDT by John JorsettTom McClintock's "A Modest Proposal for Saving Our Schools"
Tom McClintock.com | State Senator Tom McClintock
Posted on 06/08/2005 4:46:51 PM PDT by Remember_Salamis
Bump!
You folks still so angry over Arnold you want Angelides to win?
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