Posted on 04/13/2009 8:33:36 PM PDT by calcowgirl
NO on Prop 1-A: THE "RAINY DAY" BUDGET STABILIZATION FUND
This "budget deal" is a bailout for big spenders who will extract another $16 billion dollars in taxes and continue to increase state spending. It is not a "rainy day" fund at all. The California Legislature, that has over taxed and spent, will just have another slush fund to use at their will. It does nothing to restrain bloated deficits nor restrain tax and spend legislators.
NO on Proposition 1-B: EDUCATION FUNDING. PAYMENT PLAN
Mandates more deficit spending for an education system; that needs massive reform, not another $9.3 billion dollars in spending. Every increase in education spending, over many decades, by leaps and bounds, has only resulted in decreased student achievement. The legislature should be expanding charter schools, cutting bureaucrats, and allowing parents to choose among competitive public and private schools.
NO on Proposition 1-C: LOTTERY MODERNIZATION ACT
Lenders no longer trust the state of California to pay off its debts with reduced spending, so the legislature wants to promise its future income from gambling to bet that voters are suckers. The state legislators want to play the lottery with state finances, in order to borrow and spend more.
NO on Proposition 1-D: CHILDREN'S SERVICES FUNDING
This shell game takes tobacco taxes revenue, that had been promised for early childhood development programs, to pay off its other general fund obligations. Not only does this allow the state legislator to hinder the voter initiative, it funds more bloated state bureaucracy.
NO on Proposition 1-E: MENTAL HEALTH FUNDING. TEMPORARY REALLOCATION
Another shell game that voids voter initiative preferences to pay for mandates that were imposed by the federal government. The state should be saying NO to federal mandates and handouts, of our tax dollars, by reforming its own MediCal program with tax-free medical savings plans.
NO on Proposition 1-F: ELECTED OFFICIALS' SALARIES. PREVENTS PAY INCREASES DURING BUDGET DEFICIT YEARS
This "feel good" proposition pretends to freeze legislator's salaries, but it does nothing of the sort. It pretends to be an incentive for responsible budget reductions, but it only guarantees more tax increases when legislators insist that they have to spend more. It does nothing to cut legislator salaries, nor those of the exploding state bureaucracy. This is a con game, to top off the shell games and slush funds of the other propositions.
Vote NO on all of these statist, bureaucratic games. NO on more borrowing and spending.
that’s the way my ballot will be marked!
Commie Arnie can go to hell, or back to Austria and never return!
Only a fool would vote for them.
None of these schemes would have seen the light of day if the California Communist Politburo hadn’t bankrupted the state over the last 30 years (hint: ever since Ronald Reagan left the state for Washington and Moonbeam Jerry Brown took over. Hia latest successor is the Hollywood clown Governator). California’s illegitimate and corrupt political system is a microcosm of the epic socialist failure that is now being mirrored in D.C.
I’m just hoping there is a large enough turn out among the “No” crowd given all the money the Austrian and his friends are pouring into this latest scheme.
As usual, the CA GOP is diddling while Rome burns. I won’t be surprised if they come out with a “Yes” recommendation this weekend.
That should ensure passage for all of them in CA
I’m afraid you are correct. I believe we are past the tipping point in Kalifornia.
ANYTHING arnold is for I”M AGAINEST!!!!
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