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California Voters Say Cut Government Spending, Don’t Raise Taxes
Rassmussen Reports ^ | May 14, 2009 | Rassmussen

Posted on 05/15/2009 4:35:17 PM PDT by Ron C.

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Californians will vote next Tuesday on a series of budget-related propositions, and one thing is clear from new Rasmussen Reports telephone polling in the state: Voters aren’t in the mood for tax increases to ease California’s budget woes.

Seventy-three percent (73%) of California voters oppose raising state income taxes to eliminate the budget deficit. Raising the state sales tax is opposed by 69%.

At the same time, 69% favor major cuts in government spending to eliminate the budget deficit. Just 16% oppose the spending cuts.

There is strong support for one concept that will be on the ballot next week. Ninety percent (90%) of voters say legislators should not get a pay raise if they fail to pass a balanced budget. Just five percent (5%) disagree.

In fact, most California voters want to go even further. Seventy percent (70%) believe that if the legislators can’t balance the budget, they should take a significant pay cut.

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(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: calbudget; california; calinitiatives; calpoll; cutcutcut; elections; rasmussen; schwarzenegger; taxation
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Vote Tuesday – say no to $12 billion in new taxation.

Californians face the double-whammy of a bankrupt state and a bankrupt national government; both plan increasing taxes to levels never seen before. (That will be highly destructive – to citizens first, but ultimately for the occupants of the governing bodies of each. My bet - it won’t be long before the current occupants of both governments are cowering in caves while outside politically suggestive hangman nooses are brandished.)

Awwnold is ‘borrowing’ up to $2 billion in property tax revenue from County Governments – plunging the state into further debt, and depriving municipalities of needed street and infrastructure repairs. That along with raping Trust Funds won’t stave off total bankruptcy. It is a near certainty that all measures addressing the state deficit will fail on Tuesday – so Awwnold threatens to release thousands from prison in your neighborhood – as CA debt surges toward $70 billion, property values fall 36%, nationally only “12.5 percent.” Highways leading out of the state are moving 150,000+ former Californians elsewhere – every month.

Duffus, duh… 0 said he would renegotiate NAFTA and save US jobs. But, he gave up on that, ceding US trucking jobs to Mexicans from Mexico. Now, he has created a trade war with Canada by ordering that Fed-gov money be spent only on US made products. Canadians responded by shutting out billions of dollars worth of US products from being used in Canadian projects. Meanwhile, 0 works to take over policy in state governments across the nation. You take Fed money, 0 calls the shots.

One nice piece of news – 65 percent of Americans believe all leftist print media will be extinct in ten years. I’d say sooner. Conservatives won’t read them, and too many leftists can’t read them.

1 posted on 05/15/2009 4:35:17 PM PDT by Ron C.
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To: Ron C.
cut spending, humm, what a novel idea
2 posted on 05/15/2009 4:37:08 PM PDT by peace with honor ( they)
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To: Ron C.

...this should be fascinating over the coming weeks.


3 posted on 05/15/2009 4:37:50 PM PDT by americanophile (There's science, logic, reason; there's thought verified by experience & then there's California)
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To: Ron C.

Gee, Grey Davis got recalled for less than this.


4 posted on 05/15/2009 4:38:38 PM PDT by hattend (Sarah Palin has run a fishing business, a city, and a state. All Obama has done is run his mouth.)
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To: Ron C.

Yet they keep voting for Democrats.


5 posted on 05/15/2009 4:38:42 PM PDT by Cheap_Hessian
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To: Ron C.

If only the GOP had the nerve and the smarts to capitalise on this.


6 posted on 05/15/2009 4:40:23 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Spock didn't need a teleprompter)
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To: hattend

Recall should have been on THIS ballot! - LOL


7 posted on 05/15/2009 4:40:43 PM PDT by Ron C.
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To: Cheap_Hessian
"Yet they keep voting for Democrats."

That's not the least of it - they think Democrats are doing great job!

8 posted on 05/15/2009 4:42:18 PM PDT by Ron C.
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To: Cheap_Hessian

What percent of the 73% voted for Dems? Let me guess.


9 posted on 05/15/2009 4:42:36 PM PDT by gr8eman (Everybody is a rocket scientist...until launch day!)
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To: Ron C.

I’m surprised the propositions are lacking. It seems like California voters have done whatever the teachers union has said in the past.


10 posted on 05/15/2009 4:42:43 PM PDT by dan1123 (Liberals sell it as "speech which is hateful" but it's really "speech I hate".)
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The only problem is that California voters also vote for every spending measure put on the ballot.
California voters are primarily to blame for the budget mess.

In recent years Californians have voted to build a $45+ billion dollar high speed train from San Francisco to Los Angeles, billions in corporate welfare to private firms doing stem cell research, and every school funding proposition “for the children” that comes along.

Californians have also voted down attempts to reign in the power of the unions, who are responsible for pushing most of the spending increases in Sacramento.


11 posted on 05/15/2009 4:45:52 PM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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It’ll be a cold day in He!! before you see those corrupt bunch in Sacrament cutting anything. They will just ignore the will of the people and just go on as usual. Kalifornia is in the toilet and has been for many years.


12 posted on 05/15/2009 4:46:03 PM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: Ron C.; All

Let’s hope and pray that ALL these ballot measures fail, and fail big.


13 posted on 05/15/2009 4:49:57 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
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To: americanophile
It will only be interesting IF voters turn out in great numbers and send the message loud and clear. The amount the propositions lose by will be key.

Watch for leftist media to say that the people really wanted passage, but the nasty Republicans lied about matters and caused good measures to fail.

Message to conservatives get out and vote NO in CA

14 posted on 05/15/2009 4:51:14 PM PDT by Ron C.
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Kalifornians shouldn’t be worried. The Feds will bail Kalifornia out of this mess. Like the banks and GM, it’s too big to fail.


15 posted on 05/15/2009 5:03:52 PM PDT by Gritty (In Obamaland where truth is dead, muscle power becomes the operative standard of speech-Doug Giles)
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To: Ron C.

Rasmussen would probably get similar percentages on many of the same questions in just about every state in the Union, even though those other states aren’t facing the same kind of vote as we are in California. I think there’s a groundswell of resentment toward big government growing again in the U.S. The tea parties are the tip of the iceberg.


16 posted on 05/15/2009 5:07:10 PM PDT by Califelephant
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Seventy percent (70%) believe that if the legislators can’t balance the budget, they should take a significant pay cut.

Voting them all out of office would be a sufficient pay cut.

17 posted on 05/15/2009 5:08:24 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, Question everyone else)
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To: EGPWS

Exactly!


18 posted on 05/15/2009 5:12:39 PM PDT by hattend (Sarah Palin has run a fishing business, a city, and a state. All Obama has done is run his mouth.)
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To: counterpunch
"... California voters also vote for every spending measure put on the ballot."

So true. So many idiots. So many fools.

Well - THIS time big wads of taxes will come out of their own pockets. Maybe, just maybe Rassmussen is right - and they won't vote FOR it.

Those that do vote for it should be sent to Siberia, where they can experience the ultimate result of total government, first hand - right away, without have to creep up on it for decades.

19 posted on 05/15/2009 5:13:21 PM PDT by Ron C.
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California Voters Say Cut Government Spending, Don’t Raise Taxes

I call BS here. California voters continue to vote for politicians who increase both spending and taxes. They have had ample opportunity to select fiscal conservatives to reduce government excesses. And at each and every one of those opportunities, they chose excess instead.

20 posted on 05/15/2009 5:13:56 PM PDT by Hoodat (For the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.)
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