Posted on 02/18/2007 9:48:16 AM PST by NormsRevenge
I am still confused, Why did California fire Davis and hire Arnold Kennedy?
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Ask the Ca GOP powers that be back then , they backed him along with Jay Leno, Hannity and Hewitt for a few.. not to mention Buffett and the Bilderbergs
Politics has become an incestuous affair these days in California, no telling who's in beds with who anymore.
Hope that helps a bit. :-)
"When is a "tax" a "fee?"- when you can legally and without much effort wriggle yourself out of paying it. Social Security is a tax [the Amish do not pay it, true, but it took them quite an effort to get to that status]. Toll on a road is a fee, as long as there are secondary, non-toll roads which you could take instead.
"Not Yours To Give" -- Davy Crockett's Lesson in Government Benevolence
http://www.house.gov/paul/nytg.htm
I have an easy solution to California's budget woes.
Fines instead of jail time.
For example, if you were a middle or upper middle class person, who for the first time had been arrested for DUI, how much money would you pay to NOT go to jail for several months?
$10,000? $20,000? $30,000?
Annually, California has about 130,000 DUI *convictions*! If only 25% of these are both "1st time DUI", and able to pay, California would earn close to a BILLION dollars.
On JUST DUI.
Now think of all the other embarrassing offenses committed by the middle and upper middle classes. Non-violent offenses that they could pay whopping big fines for instead of going to jail.
So not only does California get a huge influx of income, but it also saves a huge amount of money by NOT incarcerating people in expensive jails.
If California chose this system over spending money to put people in jail, it could probably balance its budget with just a dozen crimes turned into fines.
Bring back debtor's prison!
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I haven't perused the thread yet. Has FO(FouledOut) and 68Grut seen this yet? Ok, now I'll go look...
Another way to reduce healthcare costs is to make those who employ illegal aliens pay for their healthcare costs. Of course, if the true costs of having these people here were considered and employers forced to pay, they wouldn't be such a bargain anymore.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
It's like everything else on the left:
It's not a "tax" cause we're not going to call it that. (We prefer "fee".)
It's not a "baby" cause we're not going to call it that. (We prefer "fetal tissue".)
It's not "terrorism" cause we're not going to call it that. (We prefer "freedom fighter".)
In this week's hearing on the proposed plan, Democrats said they were "uncomfortable" with the idea that people would be required to purchase health insurance. Their primary objections was to the "purchase" part of that statement. They were find with their constituents being 'given' health insurance.
From the looks of it, Shelia Kuehl has lined up her buddies and they're going to do everything they can to torpedo the plan as a way to 'get even' for her bill being vetoed last year.
Interesting editorial in Investors Business Daily Friday, pointing out, among other things, that the percentage of uninsured in California is lower now than it was during the Clinton administration. This, despite the huge increase in uninsured illegal aliens during the last ten years. It's here:
http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=256435064456051
I waited until the stupid one pinged me.
Interesting quotes - you know congress bailed TJ out of bankruptcy, right? They bought his library to keep him out of the gutter, now called "The Library of Congress."
He also let the navy rot at the piers, then declared war on the worlds largest naval power.
Interesting guy.
IIRC, only Congress allots funds for maintenaning a navy and only Congress can declare war.
Good luck Mexifornicans.
Not Mike Foster -- maybe Treen? There was state income tax in La. before Foster.
That should make ya happy.
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