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CA: Stop the budget bluster
Mercury News ^
| 6/7/03
| Mercury News
Posted on 06/08/2003 8:32:47 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Edited on 04/13/2004 3:31:26 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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THIS week a Senate-Assembly budget committee began meeting to work out the nitty-gritty of closing the state's $38 billion budget gap.
Meanwhile, the Republican leader in the Senate dug the trenches deeper and put a bayonet to the back of any of his troops who might consider slipping across the lines to make a tax-increase deal with the Democrats.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: bluster; brulte; budget; calgov2002; stop
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
FRom yesterday's Murky Noise Ping
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posted on
06/08/2003 8:33:34 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi .. Support FRee Republic)
To: NormsRevenge
temporary half-cent increase in the sales taxNot such thing.
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posted on
06/08/2003 9:20:47 AM PDT
by
NEWwoman
To: NEWwoman
Yes and then there's next year's unbalanced budget ----if they don't start slashing government programs.
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posted on
06/08/2003 9:50:46 AM PDT
by
FITZ
To: NormsRevenge
The liberal press is beside it self with Brulte's remark. I say good for him. A little warning to keep the troops in line never hurt anyone.
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posted on
06/08/2003 10:14:07 AM PDT
by
Uncle Hal
To: NEWwoman
With the liberals there is never a temporary tax increase, and if they are forced to cut taxes, they want them to be temporary.
At a Christmas Party last year, a dyed in the wool tax and spender was proposing a temporary tax increase to pay for teachers etc, (she is a bureaucrat in education). My normally quiet wife said, "Sure just like the temporary tolls and increases on the Golden Gate Bridge and Bay Bridge." Even the other liberals had to laugh.
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posted on
06/08/2003 10:27:47 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Evil Old White Devil Californian Grampa for big Al Sharpton and Nader in primaries!)
To: NormsRevenge; *calgov2002; snopercod; Grampa Dave; Carry_Okie; SierraWasp; Gophack; RonDog; ...
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posted on
06/08/2003 10:29:03 AM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Recall Gray Davis and then start on the other Democrats)
To: NormsRevenge
The inevitable theme of every single Mercury editorial in modern times takes the tone of "reason vs. Republicans." The Mercury has never, to my knowledge, considered a tax increase that it did not approve of. Color this Mercury bright red, please!
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posted on
06/08/2003 1:40:11 PM PDT
by
SteveH
To: SteveH
The Murky Snooze (or Jerkury Mewz as some here call it) is the weirdest anomaly in all of the Silicon Slum.
Here they are in the land that Venture Capital built, and all they can do is spew endless leftism: taxes are good, Government is all powerful/all knowing, Gray Davis/Ron Gonzales/Willie Brown/Jerry Brown the wisest and most benevolent politicians ever, Republicans all BAD, I mean BAD people, Prop. 13 evil (food from childrens mouths!), etc etc ad nauseum.
It really is strange in a town where some of the most glaring examples of capitalist success are based.
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posted on
06/08/2003 1:51:29 PM PDT
by
Regulator
To: Regulator
Sorty makes one suspicious of their agenda!
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posted on
06/08/2003 2:35:00 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Where is Saddam? and his Weapons of Mass Destruction?)
To: Grampa Dave; FITZ
Good points. Spending is the problem.
During World War II, wasn't there a "temporary" tax on tires - for the war effort - and that tax has lasted for 60 + years and still going like the Energizer Bunny?
The cut in the automobile tax the last few years - which Gray so touted his first term - is really temporary. They want to raise it back to the 1998 level.
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posted on
06/08/2003 2:38:00 PM PDT
by
NEWwoman
To: NEWwoman
Good luck. I'd like to see them ignite a tax revolt the likes of which they haven't seen since Proposition 13. Let em keep pushing more and more tax increases. Sooner or later something's got to give. The liberals and their media amen corner are in denial.
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posted on
06/08/2003 3:49:05 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: NormsRevenge
. . . and cuts to schools and colleges will put a drag on the state's economic growth Don't raise tuition. Get rid of the lefty, loony-tune, tenured professors and your economy will be better off.
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posted on
06/08/2003 5:05:21 PM PDT
by
roderick
To: NEWwoman
Exactly...we are still paying the BART tax.
To: Regulator
Yes, it is amazing actually, that the valley has been as successful as it has been with papers like this serving up liebral slop to the masses. It's not a crime.. but it ought to be.
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posted on
06/08/2003 8:11:10 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi .. Support FRee Republic)
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