Meg Whitman Supports $112 Billion In Higher Taxes On Californians

Real Meg Whitman ^ | 7 March 2010

[Diogenesis]

Meg Whitman's campaign guru donated max to Obama -- while she advised McCain
"Even as former eBay CEO Meg Whitman acted as a high-profile backer and adviser to 2008
GOP presidential candidate John McCain, her top aide Henry Gomez -- now an eMeg
gubernatorial campaign majordomo -- donated the maximum to Democrat Barack Obama,
federal records show. Gomez, a trusted top insider in Republican Whitman's 2010 gubernatorial
campaign, donated the maximum $2,300 allowed to the general election campaign of Obama
in the days before -- and the weeks following -- the former eBay CEO's high profile televised
address to the GOP National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he accompanied Whitman around the..."

[dubie]

how about 112 billion in spending cuts instead...

[CharlesWayneCT]

Meg Whitman wouldn’t have had a memory of Ronald Reagan as Governor of California. She was only 12 when he became Governor, and didn’t live in California until he was President.

She knew Wilson, and of the governors during the time she was an adult, he was likely the best governor California has had.

And not to defend her personally, but sales taxes are how most governments pay for services. California spends way too much money, but that’s why they are deep in debt. I don’t KNOW if the total tax burden at the end of Wilson’s term was too high or not, but other states do have higher sales taxes.

[CharlesWayneCT]

$112 billion in taxes since 1993. That’s a few billion a year. And it was in 1993. She isn’t calling for a tax increase now.

This reads like another campaign’s press release.

[CharlesWayneCT]

And by that I mean it probably doesn’t belong in “news/activism”.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I found a chart that showed that California’s TOTAL state/local tax burden in 1993 was 11th in the country, so pretty high, but not the highest.

The sales tax rate after Wilson’s increases (state/local) was 7.25%. Don’t know how that compared to other states. It is currently 8.25%. Virginia is definitely lower.

[SoConPubbie]

Meg Whitman wouldn’t have had a memory of Ronald Reagan as Governor of California. She was only 12 when he became Governor, and didn’t live in California until he was President.

She knew Wilson, and of the governors during the time she was an adult, he was likely the best governor California has had.

And not to defend her personally,

Bull!

She didn't have to know Reagan personally or have a memory of him.

All she needed to do, is actually have a basic understanding of recent California History, as she should if she wants to be Governor of this state.

I was not alive when Reagan was Governor and I know what a good Governor he was.

What a lame-ass excuse Charles.

[CharlesWayneCT]

She didn't have to know Reagan personally or have a memory of him.

The article stated: "whom she described as the greatest California governor in memory".

That obviously would not include Governors she had no memory of. She didn't say "Of All Time".

If someone cared, they could ask her if she thinks Wilson was better than Reagan. But the comment attributed to her doesn't give that answer, it only gives a comparison to others she has known.

[freekitty]

I understand. If they vote her in there will be no difference because she is not a Republican. Just proves we need to select our own candidates instead of the parties selecting them for us.