Posted on 07/28/2006 9:01:57 PM PDT by calcowgirl
General Election - November 7, 2006
Prop. 1A Transportation Funding Protection: YES! For years, the Legislature has raided our highway taxes for general fund spending. Though it’s more window dressing than relief, this measure makes it marginally harder to do so.
Prop. 1B Transportation Bond: NO! Although some of this money is for long overdue road construction, most goes for equipment, maintenance and social programs that will be obsolete decades before our children have finished paying off the debt. Californians pay the third highest tax per gallon of gasoline in the country – and yet we rank 43rd in per capita spending on highways. Our neglected roads are not the taxpayers’ fault.
Prop. 1C Housing Bond: NO! Economics 1: When something is plentiful, it’s cheap; when it is scarce, it’s expensive. Housing prices have skyrocketed because governmental regulations have kept the supply of new housing from meeting the demand. By pouring more (borrowed) money into the market without reducing those restrictions, the effect will be to force UP both home prices and taxes.
Prop. 1D Education Bond: NO! Five billion dollars of new school spending is apparently not enough – so here comes another school bond. But once again, most of the money is going for stuff that won’t be around when our children are still paying off the debt. Won’t our kids have their own schools to repaint without paying for painting that was done 30 years ago?
Prop. 1E Levee Bond: YES! Almost all of this money goes for levee construction that our great-grandchildren will use. Why should anyone outside of Sacramento care? Collapse of the Delta levees means collapse of the state water project – and billions of dollars of state liabilities paid for by ALL taxpayers. This is a classic ounce of prevention saving a pound of cure.
Prop. 83 Jessica’s Law: YES! Placed on the ballot by initiative when the legislature failed to act, this proposition is named for the little Florida girl who was killed by a released sex-offender. Prop. 83 prohibits felony registered sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or park and requires lifetime GPS monitoring.
Prop. 84 Park Bond: NO! A grab bag of local pork projects (some exempt from competitive bidding requirements and conflict of interest laws) paid for by a generation of taxpayers.
Prop. 85 Parental Notification: YES! Your 16-year-old daughter cannot use a tanning bed or get her ears pierced without your written consent, but she can undergo a surgical abortion without you even being notified. This measure restores your right to know what is happening to your own child.
Prop. 86 Cigarette Tax: NO! Why should non-smokers care about a measure that increases the tax on a pack of cigarettes to $2.60? Because it gives smokers a huge incentive to avoid the entire tax by buying cigarettes through friends or family out of state. And who do you think the government will be coming after to make up the resulting drop in cigarette tax collections?
Prop. 87 Oil Tax: NO! Just when you thought gasoline taxes were high enough, along comes this gem to increase them more. Another economics lesson: When you tax something, you get less of it and the price goes up.
Prop. 88 Parcel Tax: NO! Here’s yet another way to get into your pocket: add an extra $50 to your annual property tax bill for still more money for schools. What makes anyone think this money will get any closer to the classroom than the $11,000+ per student we already pump in?
Prop. 89 Taxpayer Funding of Campaigns: NO! I love this one – force taxpayers to foot the bill for politicians’ campaigns. But remember Thomas Jefferson’s warning: "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
Prop. 90 Protect Our Homes: YES! Restores the Fifth Amendment property rights protections in the Bill of Rights that the U.S. Supreme Court shredded with its infamous Kelo decision. Prop. 90 prohibits local officials from seizing homes and businesses for the profit of politically well-connected private interests, and requires government to pay you for any damage it does to your property.
I would celebrate the depopulation if it weren't for the flipside....
"Coming to a neighborhood near you."
;-)
Bookmark for later review.
Good line. I'm going to borrow it freely!
Yes, and calcowgirl found some very troubling history of how Hiram Johnson screwed the CAGOP without any lovin whatsoever, almost like Earl Warren did after he became Chief Justice... And worst of all, Shifty Schwartzy thinks he's the reincarnation of both of 'em!!! (and on that I agree with him)(and it really makes him suck canal water between levee bondage)
Ya mean like this one?
Los Angeles Times*, Jun 22, 1928; pg. 1See also here and here.So far from aiding Hoover or maintaining "party harmony," The Times believes that any deal between Republicans and this notorious traitor to the party will do more to damage Republicanism and its candidate, not only in California but elsewhere, than any other single mistake which could be made. Any effort, passive or active, calculated to delude the rank and file of the party into the belief that Johnson, who so often has betrayed them, has suddenly become a fit object for their support, would be, an act of treachery comparable only to Johnson's own black record of political betrayals during the past eighteen years.
*The Los Angeles Times was a right-wing publication at this time.
Yep! I was pickin up what you were layin down, now you picked right up on what I wasa layin down!!!
The two men have separate campaign arms, but "they are running as a de facto ticket," said GOP consultant Kevin Spillane.
Strategically very smart.
Thanks for the ping!
I checked out my old working class neighborhood with the homes now selling for $5k+ months back, and sure enough.. a zillion sex-offenders living in the area -- 1/2 mile would move them out of that child-centered neighborhood. Good!
Edit: $500K+
We had the voters vote no on a similiar prop up here in the wine country.
The local fishwrap, the super rich vineyard liberals, the enviral group and their dumbed down voters made basically the same prop appear to be an expensive and evil prop for tax payers.
The smaller vineyard owners, ranchers, farmers and people like us were made to look like the villians. It was very scary. Anyone who believed in the rights of the property owners was portrayed as people who would destroy the beautiful valley.
I'm sure the same lies, spin and BS will be used against the state wide prop.
BTTT from an already-overtaxed Californian. We've had it!
You can go to the bank with that one.
Thanks for the ping. It is my practice to vote NO on all bond issues, no matter what they say they're for. I will never vote to raise my own property taxes. If they want the money so bad, let them get it legitimately, by direct taxation.
Oh good! You saw this post. I just noticed that I hadn't responded to your post #17 about Prop 1A (Sorry about that). Prop 1A sounds good on the surface, but the devil is in the details (as usual).
Bump for later!
Do you know where his take on this years initiatives is?
Freshly posted — I pinged you.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1954799/posts
Thanks for the reminder to take a look.
Why thankee kindly. You must be a mind reader. :-)
Yep! That must be it! ;-)
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