The taxpayers have HAD it.
i see regularly bumper stickers against prop 1a.
i hear that some are democrat retirees.
We want heads on a stick! Recall petitions have been approved for lawmakers that put those propositions on the ballot.
“Taxpayer revolt”.....
Yeah, once there is simply no more money to give, there’s a ‘revolt’. This state is tapped out, going in the tank. And it’s going to be worse than they project, with the property values continuing to drop, thus further impacting property taxes. THROW THE ILLEGALS OUT OF HERE.
Good news for Californians, unless Jerry (Moonbeam)Brown determines it is an issue too important for the voters to decide and is preparing to ask the courts to intervene.
AARP is to the left of Stalin. Seriously for such a large organization that pretends to be non-partisan, they always seem to support the tax & spend side.
Oops! Better get Amnesty going!!
It would help if you, as poster, would summarize what each of the six is so that it’s clear how the taxpayers are fed up. I don’t doubt you, but this doesn’t give me much info, and it’s helpful if the poster summarizes the guts of the article. Thanks.
The only one that has popular support is the suspension of pay increases in years without a budget. The real-world result of that will be increased pressure on hold-out legislators to go along with spending and tax increases. I’m going to vote NO on everything, including that one.
CA is the breeding ground for stupidity. I know there are good people with a portion of common sense, but they are not the majority of voters. Liberal causes dominate the picture and the budget. They will continue to sap the life from the state and the taxpayers. Rights for sexual deviants, while not a real issue, seems to be the obsession with most of the media outlets there, while the state is heading for a train-wreck. What about setting some limits on the outrageous salaries in Hollywood—what does it take to repeat memorized lines in front of a camera?
One other item—of what use is voting in CA? Corrupt judges, if they don’t like the outcome, are allowed to ignore the voting populace.
I once lived in a small German village while I was in the Army. I used to hike up to the top of the mountain and explore the ruins of a medieval castle. Only the gigantic foundation stones were left. I asked the locals what happened. They told me that the nobles taxed and oppressed the peasants until one day in the 14th century, IIRC, the peasants rose up and stormed the castle, killed all of the nobles, and pulled down the castle walls. All of the houses and barns in the village had stones from the dismantled castle in their walls. Spontaneous peasant rebellions. It could happen.
When Arnold first got it in, he tried to pass some anti-union measures and he was roundly defeated. After that, he completely switched gears and has become basically just another Gray-out Davis. This time around he is actually in bed with the unions. The unions began running Yes on 1A and 1B ads weeks ago. The irony is that usually the unions get their way in this state; usually being hitched to the governor and legislature has helped the unions in their power grabs. But this time the voters are “mad” at the politicians and so the unions may actually lose this round! It’s not that California voters actually know what they’re doing. Californians generally fall for the “larger class size”, “teacher lay-off”, “fewer firefighters and police” rhetoric. I don’t see this as an actual tax revolt by Californians
Unfortunately, so far, no time machine has been invented outside of PC/Apple commercials, and thanks to business hostile tax meansures, you guys are screwed. Have a bowl of granola and live with it.
All states--and the federal government--need a stronger version of Proposition 1F:
All legislators will receive a pay cut by twice the percentage the budget is over the previous year's budget adjusted for inflation and will receive a pay increase equal to the percentage the budget passed is under the previous year's budget plus inflation.
I suspect rather than just a proposition, such a measure would have to be an amendment to each state's constitution.
In short, the goal must be to prevent the continued growth of government.
I was just listening to Armstrong & Getty in Sacto. on 650 am.
They’re both PISSED at Arnold, the lying dumbacrats, and all the lying union commercials trying to tell everyone that if these props aren’t passed, there go our fire & police protection, OF COURSE... the teachers!
They just spent about a half hour reading EVERY state agency that could be cut before they went after the most needed positions, and it took them a whole half hour to read the list NON-STOP QUICKLY!
It was insane some of the BOGUS agencies that are paid for by US! One even had to do with transgender CRAP!! Not to mention all the overlapping, redundant agencies that probably do the same thing, and probably are even needed in the first place! The environmental garbage was INSANE! No wonder this state is SO SCREWED UP!!
Yeah... The police and firefighters are the ones that need to be cut, MY A$$!! SAME OLD LIES... EVERY TIME!!
Do you follow this closely or was this in your local paper. It would be great if this is becoming a national story.