[sickoflibs]

RE :”I started to say that such an amendment should require that all tax hikes have to be approved by a popular referendum, but California tried that, and the crooks in the legislature renamed taxes as “fees.”

Republican Bob Ehrlich got the MD governorship in 2002 promising not to sign tax increases but then ran into political problems as the democrat houses sent him spending bill after spending bill, then he announced that increasing all types of fees and property taxes was not really raising taxes. He passed a water bill fee increase that also applied to those that get water from their own wells, basically in republican areas. Come re-election year 2006 the liberal Sun pointed out to voters how he raised all these taxes after promising not to, after the sun itself had been critical of him opposing raising taxes. The Sun had repeatly called for him to raise taxes. He lost the issue, liberal O Malley won and he immediately raised our taxes.

My idea of balanced budget means everything is part of the budget, even stuff Republican like. If there is an REAL emergency they can sell some land.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

It's infuriating when the GOP and Obama play the same word games. But Obama wins the prize for the biggest con job by:

1) Bashing Hillary for backing an individual mandate to buy health insurancec

2) Making sure Obamacare had that mandate

3) Claiming that Obamacare didn't break his "I won't raise taxes on anyone" promise, and

4) Arguing in federal court that the mandate is a tax increase