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CA: Tom McClintock on the Propositions
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| 10/28/10
| Tom McClintock
Posted on 10/29/2010 1:08:50 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Prop 19: When Worlds Collide. NO. If this simply allowed people to cultivate and smoke marijuana themselves and left the rest of us alone, it would be worth considering. But it goes much further and provides that no person shall be
discriminated against or denied any right or privilege for pot use, inviting a lawsuit every time an employer tries to require a drug test, for example. If you want to smoke pot in your own world, I dont care. But dont bring it into mine.
Prop 20: Congressional Redistricting. YES. This finishes the work we began in 2008 to get redistricting decisions away from self-interested state legislators and into the hands of a bi-partisan commission. The original reform omitted Congressional districts this simply adds them.
Prop 21: Highway Robbery. NO. Right now, state park users pay a nominal fee that helps pay for upkeep, assuring that those who use our state parks help pay for them. This measure ends the day-user fee and shifts the cost to the rest of us by imposing an $18 per car tax increase whether we use the parks or not. Stealing money from highway travelers used to be called highway robbery. Now its called Proposition 21.
Prop 22: Hands Off Our Money. YES. This takes a giant leap toward restoring local government independence and protecting our transportation taxes by prohibiting state raids on local and transportation funds. Local governments are hardly paragons of virtue, but local tax revenues should remain local.
Prop 23: Liberation from the Environmental Left. YES. In 2006, Sacramentos rocket-scientists enacted AB 32, imposing draconian restrictions on carbon dioxide emissions (yes, thats the stuff you exhale). They promised to save the planet from global warming and open a cornucopia of new jobs. Since then, Californias unemployment rate has shot far beyond the national unemployment rate and the earth has continued to warm and cool as it has for billions of years. Prop 23 merely holds the Environmental Left to its promise: it suspends AB 32 until unemployment stabilizes at or below its pre-AB 32 level.
Prop 24: Because Taxes Just Arent High Enough. NO. This is a predictable entry by the public employee unions to impose an additional $1.7 billion tax on businesses. The problem, of course, is that businesses dont pay business taxes we do. Business taxes can only be paid in three ways: by us as consumers (through higher prices), by us as employees (through lower wages) and by us as investors (through lower earnings on our 401(k)s).
Prop 25: Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire. NO. This changes the 2/3 vote requirement for the state budget to a simple majority a reform I have long supported. Experience has shown that the current 2/3 vote requirement for the budget does not restrain spending and it utterly blurs accountability. But such a reform MUST repair the 2/3 vote requirement for all tax increases and restore constitutional spending and borrowing limits. Without these provisions, Prop. 25 would be a disaster for taxpayers and a recipe for bankruptcy.
Prop 26: Calling a Tax a Tax. YES. Under the infamous Sinclair Paint decision, virtually any tax may be increased by majority vote as long as it is called a fee, gutting the 2/3 vote requirement in the state constitution to raise taxes. Prop. 26 rescinds Sinclair Paint, restores the Constitution, and calls a tax a tax.
Prop 27: OMG. NO. Want to go back to the days when politicians drew their own district lines, literally choosing their own voters? This will get us there.
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To: LibWhacker
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posted on
10/29/2010 1:10:51 PM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
To: LibWhacker
LOL - I am glad McClintock agrees with me on all these... This is how I am voting...
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posted on
10/29/2010 1:11:08 PM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
To: LibWhacker
Thanks for the post.
I wanted to vote Yes on Proposition 19 - but I didn't realize that this Proposition included the statement "no person shall be
discriminated against or denied any right or privilege for pot use".
That's just wrong. I'd love to see the free market drive the drug prices to pennies on a dollar - but users of narcotics should give up a large amount of rights and privileges as opposed to those that maintain a sober lifestyle. This Proposition apparently says otherwise ...
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posted on
10/29/2010 1:20:55 PM PDT
by
El Cid
(Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
To: LibWhacker
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posted on
10/29/2010 1:33:22 PM PDT
by
sheana
Except for prop 19, I agree. Gov’t has too big a hand in regulating a pretty harmless weed..
To: LibWhacker
I hope Tom gets some choice committee assignments when the Pubbies take over Congress. He deserves it.
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posted on
10/29/2010 2:03:03 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to manage by central planning.)
To: adamjefferson
The no-discrimination clause is a deal breaker. As an employer, drug tests should be something I can use to screen out certain employees.
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posted on
10/29/2010 2:04:24 PM PDT
by
BenKenobi
(Support COD - "Cash on Delivery" for DE Senate!)
To: LibWhacker
And to think that the GOP backed Ahnold Schwarzentaxxer over Tom McClintock for Governor.
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posted on
10/29/2010 2:09:46 PM PDT
by
Ol' Dan Tucker
(People should not be afraid of the government. Governement should be afraid of the people)
To: BigEdLB
Prop 25: Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire. NO. This changes the 2/3 vote requirement for the state budget to a simple majority a reform I have long supported. Experience has shown that the current 2/3 vote requirement for the budget does not restrain spending and it utterly blurs accountability. But such a reform MUST repair the 2/3 vote requirement for all tax increases and restore constitutional spending and borrowing limits. Without these provisions, Prop. 25 would be a disaster for taxpayers and a recipe for bankruptcy. What the heck is he saying there? Does he believe in majority rule or does he believe in a need for 2/3? He says the 2/3 requirement does not restrain spending and "blurs accountability." So, if he's against the 2/3 requirement, is he in favor of 50%, which would be a Yes on 25 vote?
To: Walts Ice Pick
I agree. The wording of the statement seems to have been garbled.
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posted on
10/29/2010 2:26:08 PM PDT
by
AEMILIUS PAULUS
(It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
To: LibWhacker
I agree with him on everything except the $18 for the state parks. My ‘surcharged vehicle’ will then get free entry to the state parks. I view that as much cheaper than paying for a yearly pass. My local state park costs $12 per visit. So I save money on this with just two visits.
To: LibWhacker
Thanks for posting that,...just sent it to my daughter.
To: californianmom
What about all the people who don’t go to state parks? Should they be forced to pay for your visit too? State parks should be funded with user fees.
To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
Maybe McClintock hasn’t had a chance to actually read all these propositions. They’re pretty complicated sometimes.
To: californianmom
I agree with him on everything except the $18 for the state parks. My surcharged vehicle will then get free entry to the state parks. I view that as much cheaper than paying for a yearly pass. My local state park costs $12 per visit. So I save money on this with just two visits. Because all those who don't visit state parks should be taxed even more to subsidize your recreation, right?
I think everyone should pay their freight. Go to a state park, pay the fee.
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posted on
10/29/2010 3:37:44 PM PDT
by
calcowgirl
("In politics the middle way is none at all." -- John Adams)
To: Walts Ice Pick
What the heck is he saying there? Maybe McClintock hasnt had a chance to actually read all these propositions.Apparently McClintock can read and understands the difference between supporting a proposed budget, or an increase in an existing tax, or a newly proposed tax. He also apparently recognizes that administrative fees are simply taxes.
To: Walts Ice Pick; AEMILIUS PAULUS
I don't want to misstate McClintock's position so I am searching for his original article (in about 2007, iirc) that laid out his beliefs. Basically, he thinks the super-majority should be dropped for budgets, but kept for raising taxes AND fees. Accountability would lie with the party that passed the budget.
Below is from an article quoting him... I'll keep looking for the article I remember.
A perverse result of the supermajority requirement is that it does not constrain state spending, McClintock says. What it does is bid up the cost of the budget with each additional vote. Every additional vote comes with louder calls for higher spending. You hear, This program is really, really important to me and Im not going to vote for the budget unless its thrown in, plus a park in my district.
Moreover, McClintock contends, allowing the majority party to pass a budget on its own would pinpoint blame. Voters deserve to know which party is responsible for the budget and hold it accountable, he says.
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posted on
10/29/2010 3:58:05 PM PDT
by
calcowgirl
("In politics the middle way is none at all." -- John Adams)
To: afnamvet; ALOHA RONNIE; ambrose; antceecee; atomic_dog; AVNevis; B4Ranch; b9; backtothestreets; ...
PING!
Dusting off the McClintock ping list for any of you Californians that haven’t voted yet.
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posted on
10/29/2010 4:11:16 PM PDT
by
calcowgirl
("In politics the middle way is none at all." -- John Adams)
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