While the average American family is struggling to make ends meet what with high gas and food prices, Liberals across the country, including their Presidential candidates, are offering to make it even harder to pay the bills by proposing massive new taxation on numerous items and services that haven't been taxed before to make up budget shortfalls. Cleary, for Liberals, balancing government budgets is vastly more important than families balancing their own. Hey, if anyone has to cut back on spending, it sure isn't going to be government so, the little people must adjust. If this is "looking out for the little guy," I'd hate to see what Liberals would do to us if they didn't.
No. Once they go through that money they will be clamoring for more. Only with reduction in Big Government encroachment onto individual freedom will the books begin to balance. The problem in America is the practitioners and advocates of Big Government.
How about these turkeys in Sacramento spend less than they take in? HUH?
I want to hear the lawyers howl when it is presented that legal fees are taxable services.
Or are lawyers just more equal than common folk?
Arnold, the Communism you fled from collapsed publicly because the elites kept writing checks when the account was empty.
If you want to do that, go back to Austria. The Golden State is not the Golden Goose.
Arnie once said... "We don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. ... Solution?.... CUT, CUT, CUT!"
Those words got him elected.
The people are still waiting.
Taxing car repairs? I would submit that is not a want but a need and in fact is regressive since cars needing repair are older and more likely owned by folks who can’t afford a new one every 3 or 4 years.
I have an idea. They should tax premium cigars (anything found in the Govenator’s humidor qualifies) at $100 a stick. Make Ahnold help out.
okydoky, now lets see... i am taxed on the dollar i make, then i'm taxed to spend it, then the company gets taxed on the dollar i spend on their profit, and the money they pay in wages is taxed and they are paid by the employee, who then spends it and is taxed again, and again, and again etc.etc.etc.......When we recalled Gray Davis and replaced him with Arnold, I said then that it would never work without replacing our legislature too.
How about a special tax on Hollywood actors? Do it like New York, so they have to pay even if they move out of state.
I suppose cutting the budget -- you know, lowering the bridge instead of raising the water-- is out of the question,huh?
“When it comes to tax policy, the worst thing a government can do is to increase taxes in the face of a declining economy”
Nobody to listen to him in Cali.
Yes what a guy. Sometimes the revulsion I feel for politicians and bureaucrats is so visceral. They create a mess and then want to earn votes on promises of fixing it? We would not deal with any other aspect of our lives the way we are forced to deal with our elected morons. They mismanage the money they steal from us and then they pass laws taking more promising us mana from heaven. As for their claims about not wanting to cut education funding, I have a big question what difference will it make? Maybe if children had to learn the old fashioned way they’d appreciate the education they get a little more. Has adding computers, schools built with vaulted ceilings that look more like shopping malls helped educated one child better?
The results provide a resounding NO!
Talk to any teacher in the United LA school district and once you hear their stories you’d understand why teachers feel the need to carry weapons. Personally I think they should with some of the monsters they deal with and if they have to shoot a “kid” that is trying to kill or rape them then maybe the world would be a better place. I’m tired of the same old game the same old “we need more money for the children”. What children? The ugly monsters they are creating are not children they are the future, the future prison population.
"We will now tax services, so this way we will not be raising taxes"
"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