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[CA] Jerry Brown: Taxes Need to Be Raised, Services Cut, Belts Tightened
KTLA ^
| Dec. 30, 2010
| Brandi Hitt
Posted on 12/30/2010 2:03:49 PM PST by La Enchiladita
SACRAMENTO -- Gov.-elect Jerry Brown is getting ready to tell Californians the news they don't want to hear: Taxes need to be raised, services cut and belts tightened.
His budget plan includes deep cuts to state services, including university systems and welfare programs, with a request that voters extend temporary tax hikes on vehicles, income and sales that are set to expire next year.
The blueprint Brown will unveil when he takes office early next month also is expected to take aim at several tax breaks and subsidies that have been fiercely guarded by the business lobby in Sacramento, according to people involved in budget discussions with the incoming administration.
Among the breaks are multi-billion-dollar incentives for redevelopment projects and hundreds of millions of dollars of "enterprise zone" credits meant to encourage investment in blighted neighborhoods.
Also targeted is a recent change to state business tax formulas that has saved corporate California roughly $1 billion.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: aflcio; broke; california; cta; goldenstate; jerrybrown; kalifornia; moonbeam; seiu; tax; taxandspend; taxes; unions; yourtaxdollarsatwork
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To: rellimpank
HOLY COW! I can’t help but LOL..
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posted on
12/30/2010 2:51:35 PM PST
by
MaxMax
To: rellimpank
California Junta Estatal de Personal Excuse me?!
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posted on
12/30/2010 2:53:33 PM PST
by
La Enchiladita
(Remember, Reflect, Renew)
To: MaxMax
“HOLY COW! I cant help but LOL..”
I was especially amused at “the cuts in services” without any mention of any cuts in the number of California Public Employees who provide those services.
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posted on
12/30/2010 2:58:40 PM PST
by
rdcbn
To: MaxMax
--I plagiarized that from some other poster several months ago-
-I don't post it on many California threads 'cause I don't want to get banned for wasting bandwidth----
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posted on
12/30/2010 2:59:05 PM PST
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
To: La Enchiladita
You just know in advance that the only thing the legislature will attempt is to increase taxes. Cutting expenditures will not happen.
To: MaxMax
Yeah, fees, the most notorious of which is the "California redemption value" TAX we pay on each and every bottle of beverage, except for milk. They use the phony excuse that it was levied to "promote recycling." I fought that so hard I was warned to stop harassing staff in Tom Hayden's office, those stupid pigs.
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posted on
12/30/2010 3:04:44 PM PST
by
La Enchiladita
(Remember, Reflect, Renew)
To: ReverendJames
and it never occured to them to undo it either, did it?
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posted on
12/30/2010 3:15:34 PM PST
by
GeronL
(#7 top poster at CC, friend to all, nicest guy ever, +96/-14, ignored by 1 sockpuppet.. oh & BANNED)
To: La Enchiladita
“I fought that so hard I was warned to stop harassing staff in Tom Hayden’s office, those stupid pigs.”
God bless you for your good work. I want all freepers to know there are few good people in California.
To: Eric in the Ozarks
How many $250,000 - $400,000 Board of Regents jobs does California need ? Californians are going to find out...Somehow, I have the feeling that the party that claims putting people on unemployment is good for the economy will justify those high salaries by claiming they help the state income tax base.
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posted on
12/30/2010 3:19:06 PM PST
by
farmguy
To: GeronL
I think they’re running around trying to figure out what happened. They thought they had the same amount of taxpayers (the so-called rich).
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posted on
12/30/2010 3:19:24 PM PST
by
ReverendJames
(Only A Lawyer And A Painter Can Change Black To White)
To: La Enchiladita
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posted on
12/30/2010 3:20:19 PM PST
by
pogo101
To: La Enchiladita
That’s it Jerry! Raise those taxes! It’s worked SO well for Kalifornia EVERYTIME it’s been tried in the past!
To: rellimpank
heres the problem 1. California Academic Performance Index (API) 2. California Access for Infants and Mothers 3. California Acupuncture Board 4. California Administrative Office of the Courts 5. California Adoptions Branch 6. California African American Museum 7. California Agricultural Export Program 8. California Agricultural Labor Relations Board 9. California Agricultural Statistics Service 10. California Air Resources Board (CARB) 11. California Allocation Board 12. California Alternative Energy and Advanced Transportation Financing Authority Yep, that about covers is...the only one missing is the ministry of communist implementation... Yeah, raise taxes, that should grow the economy.
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posted on
12/30/2010 3:26:17 PM PST
by
CincyRichieRich
(Keep your head up and keep moving forward!)
To: A_Former_Democrat
The Poster Child for liberalism . .. the other 49, youve been forewarned Too late here in Illinois.
To: rellimpank
You beat me to it. I was just looking this info up.
I wonder just how many of those commissions, departments and boards would be missed if they were just quietly defended?
To: La Enchiladita
Welcome to the Hotel California.
To: forgotten man
I feel like I live among brain-dead zombies.
It’s weird, to say the least...
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posted on
12/30/2010 3:33:54 PM PST
by
La Enchiladita
(Remember, Reflect, Renew)
To: GeronL
To: pogo101
As if the old butt isn’t sore enough already.
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posted on
12/30/2010 3:35:33 PM PST
by
La Enchiladita
(Remember, Reflect, Renew)
To: La Enchiladita
Anyone with half a brain knew full well that a dyed-in-the-wool leftist like Jerry 'Moonbeam' Brown, if elected, would immediately call for more and higher taxes to stave off California's inevitable bankruptcy. The 'cuts' are an illusion that Brown has to mouth to pretend as if he is actually going to do anything useful to help reduce the state's massive debt. The same tattered and worn liberal playbook; tax and spend and elect. However, as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once stated: socialism is a great idea until you run out of other people's money". Foolish California voters that put Jerry Brown in the Governor's mansion will soon learn the harsh reality of that statement. They will get little sympathy from the rest of us.
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