Governor's budget plan would divert gas taxes to help close gap ($17.2-billion budget shortfall)

LA Times ^ | 5/14/08 | Jordan Rau

[Myrddin]

Get laws changed to allow only legal people in public schools and the country would probably save 50 billion a year at a minimum.

Eliminate birthright citizenship to the anchor babies of illegal alien parents. Prosecute employers who employ illegal aliens. Deport illegals when detected and require them to take their minor children back to their country of citizenship. Those steps would kill the job magnet and the attraction to the welfare state. Many would self deport. Every illegal removed from the country represents an ongoing savings to the taxpayers.

[calcowgirl]

The whole thing is a gagger.

http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/press-release/9599/

The Governor’s proposal also acknowledges that it is fiscally responsible to put in place a last resort safety net, so he is proposing something modeled after former Governor George Deukmejian’s sales tax trigger. If the Lottery proposal is not approved by voters in November, a trigger would go off that would temporarily raise the sales tax by one cent. The sales tax triggers off when the rainy day fund is full or by 2010, whichever occurs first. When the economy recovers and the rainy day fund is full, taxpayers would receive rebates until the entirety of the sales tax increase is paid back in full. This safety net would be a last resort, and the Governor intends to never have to use it.

[A CA Guy]

I agree with what you say, because though some might be very nice, they are poor and suck up all our tax dollars in health care, food stamps, section 8 housing and public education.

[John Jorsett]

Every two years we vote on an initiative that’s supposed to prohibit the taking of gas tax funds for purposes other than roads, yet they keep finding ways to steal it. I guess it’s going to take a mob with pitchforks to convey the message that this crap has to end.