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Posted on 08/28/2003 4:59:03 PM PDT by ParsifalCA
The budget is bad for the state... recall them all...
A few weeks ago, California's tax-and-spend Democrats with the help of 16 wobbly Republicans finally approved a budget that sells out the interests of California taxpayers. Why? In the case of the Republicans, probably so they would be liked by their friends across the aisle. Or, perhaps we can simply take them at their word; they were hungry, tired, and wanted to go home, eat a hot meal, take a warm shower and hop into a soft bed.
The reality is that the budget Davis proposed back in May, was better (on the margin) than the one the 16 Republicans voted for after holding out for the past several weeks. They ended up delaying only to cave and vote for a worse fiscal product. Remove the $2.3 billion in higher sales taxes and the Davis proposal was a more pro-growth budget than what the people ended up with.
Make no mistake about it, the so-called budget compromise, raises taxes on those who can least afford it and also on those least likely to tolerate paying higher taxes.
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