Tax me more? : (California ) State spending causes some politicians to plead for more tax funding

The Orange County Register ^ | Friday, January 18, 2002 | State Sen. McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks,

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The last time California's finances were as messed up as they are today was in 1991, and it happened in much the same way. State officials had spent everything in sight during an economic expansion and when the economy slowed, they were left dangling in the gulch between their boom-time appetites and their recession-racked revenues. Any well-managed household would have cut out the waste in its budget, but not California.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[Asclepius]

"Maybe I'm misreading the public," Assemblywoman Carole Migden told a news conference a few weeks ago, "but I think people would be more than happy to throw back a few bucks to help working families, vaccinate kids and provide quality schooling."

No, Carole. You read us correctly: we all feel ourselves woefully undertaxed; and, therefore, unloved and uncared for. So please, raise our taxes. Raise them again and again and again.

(And keep raising them until you foment another tax revolt and Republican majorities are swept into power.)

[John Jorsett]

People get the government they deserve. I must have done something terrible in a past life ...

[tubebender]

On top of the tax increase Gov. Pete Wilson robbed the rural counties blind and to this day these counties are strapped for funds due to the shift of Property Taxes to Sac.

[doctor noe]

I'm going to say this again. Any tax increase passed and signed into law by the legislature and Davis will be the fault of the GOP. It will mean that 2 or more GOP legislators will have been bought off by the Democrats in exchange for their votes. If this happens, we'll have nobody to blame but the GOP leadership for not keeping all of their troops in line. It happened last year with the sales tax...don't think it can't happen again!

[ken21]

gov gray entered office with a surplus, and then he spent it by buying up electricity in a stalinist buying spree.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Right!!

[goldstategop]

It could but not this year. What exactly would the Rats have to offer Republican holdouts in the way of goodies in a recession?

[randita]

"Maybe I'm misreading the public," Assemblywoman Carole Migden told a news conference a few weeks ago, "but I think people would be more than happy to throw back a few bucks to help working families, vaccinate kids and provide quality schooling."

The money WAS there to do all those things and MORE, Ms. Migden.

Your incompetent governor and his incompetent staff blew it speculating on energy futures! What you need to be asking is "are people willing to throw back a few bucks to pay for the incompetence and shortsightedness of Gov. Davis and his staff?"

[slimer]

"Maybe I'm misreading the public," Assemblywoman Carole Migden told a news conference a few weeks ago, "but I think people would be more than happy to throw back a few bucks to help working families, vaccinate kids and provide quality schooling

How about we throw your a$$ out of government and then you can get a real job.

[doctor noe]

It could but not this year. What exactly would the Rats have to offer Republican holdouts in the way of goodies in a recession?

Good question. We'll just have to wait and see what unfolds. The Rats are going to do Davis' dirty work and they will try to raise the sales tax, VLF and any other means to extract money from the taxpayers. They also are allowing law enforcement agencies to place an initiative on the ballot to raise the sales tax. As to what the Rats will offer vulnerable, squishy Republicans to support their cause...I don't know. They can be very creative when they want!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Right!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Since the rich pay for most everything in California , lets just ask them for a few more dollars. LOL!

There was a thread about that .