[NEWwoman]

temporary half-cent increase in the sales tax

Not such thing.

[FITZ]

Yes and then there's next year's unbalanced budget ----if they don't start slashing government programs.

[Grampa Dave]

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.

[Sharpshot613]

Exactly...we are still paying the BART tax.