{Karen Bass, California's new} Assembly Speaker proposes $6.4 billion in taxes

AP via SFGate ^ | 6/5/8 | SAMANTHA YOUNG, Associated Press Writer

[SmithL]

Sacramento, CA (AP) -- Assembly Speaker Karen Bass is proposing to raise $6.4 billion in taxes to balance the state budget.

Bass told the Sacramento Press Club on Wednesday she wants to close tax loopholes and eliminate tax breaks on wealthy Californians. She declined to say which taxes Assembly Democrats want to raise.

[SmithL]

A Democrat that wants to raise taxes? When did that start?

[Right Cal Gal]

“eliminate tax breaks on wealthy Californians”

That would all of us in California actually PAYING taxes.

[dragnet2]

Terminate about 20,000 state government jobs, or positions.

Then terminate the positions of several million Federal employees that are all on the payroll, sucking the life out of Americans.

Do it now.

[edcoil]

When does Arnold chime in supporting her?

[SmithL]

I thought that she was chiming in to support him.

[paul51]

Tax and spend. No problem. There are no limits to the abuse the ca voters will happily accept from their corrupt and incompetent elected officials. Give them a raise and provide them a few more retirement benefits and perks while we are at it. If necessary, we can raise some fees or create some more stupid laws that will provide a basis for penalties to supplement the coffer. PS get all the guns out of the hands of the voters before they wake up. It's for our their own safety.

[Argus]

Let’s see:
Drought
Water Rationing
Wildfires
Earthquakes
Tax Increases
Decadent Celebrities
Illegal Aliens Galore
Liberals Running Everything

Let me outta this Golden State!

[HKMk23]

BOHICA!!!!

(Bend Over, Here It Comes Again!!!!)

[radar101]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/news/casalary/employee

[SierraWasp]

Is that an inclusive, or exclusive statement?

[Gaffer]

They gonna have to rename that place “ BOHICALIFORNIMEXICA “

[Lancey Howard]

Let me outta this Golden State!

Better hurry. You definitely don't want to be "the last white farmer in Zimbabwe".

[dragnet2]

This is what I was talking about. It's obscene. Government out of control.

Notice the page numbers at the bottom? Then next...

And this is just a state government.

Look at the size of these tax paid wages!

These are public servants? What a sad joke on middle class working Americans.

One can imagine what the list would look like for the Federal government. It's endless.

Name	Workplace	Salary	Overtime	Total Pay
Mark Anson Chief Investment Officer	CalPERS	$373,891.28	N/A	$608,489.28
Christianna Wood Senior Investment Officer	CalPERS	$258,931.61	N/A	$412,745.61
Patricia A. Pinkos Senior Investment Officer	CalPERS	$247,003.90	N/A	$406,316.90
Michael B. Mc Cook Senior Investment Officer	CalPERS	$245,889.67	N/A	$402,798.67
Curtis D. Ishii Senior Investment Officer	CalPERS	$251,098.48	N/A	$401,240.48
Leon G. Shahinian Senior Investment Officer	CalPERS	$199,902.07	N/A	$319,527.07
Tim L. Alder Staff Psychiatrist (Safety)	Patton State Hospital	$155,654.30	N/A	$315,201.92
Christopher J. Ailman Chief Investment Officer	State Teachers Retirement System	$243,750.00	N/A	$312,937.50
Richard J. Hayes Senior Investment Officer	CalPERS	$137,751.81	N/A	$302,595.81
Tam D. Bui Physician and Surgeon	San Quentin State Prison	$132,854.30	$161,642.18	$294,496.48
Dianne C. Oki President	State Comp Insurance Fund	$271,916.67	N/A	$271,916.67
Gertrudis C. Agcaoili Staff Psychiatrist (Safety)	Napa State Hospital	$188,365.54	$15,558.48	$259,126.42
Mary C. Cottrill Senior Portfolio Manager	CalPERS	$170,696.71	N/A	$255,175.71
Bong Doan Staff Psychiatrist (Safety)	Patton State Hospital	$155,654.30	N/A	$253,178.03
Ronald L. Seeling Chief Actuary	CalPERS	$195,859.60	N/A	$249,916.60
John B. Ehnes Chief Executive Officer	State Teachers Retirement System	$195,831.00	N/A	$243,046.00
Kevin A. Winter Senior Portfolio Manager	CalPERS	$173,160.03	N/A	$240,935.03
Shelly James Staff Psychiatrist	CA State Prison - Solano	$176,648.20	N/A	$235,722.00
Joseph Ezra Staff Psychiatrist (Safety)	Patton State Hospital	$155,654.30	N/A	$232,394.39
Michael H. Lisiak Staff Psychiatrist (Safety)	Atascadero State Hospital	$155,654.30	N/A	$226,060.25
Mohamed Amr I. Hafez Physician and Surgeon (Safety)	Patton State Hospital	$132,854.30	N/A	$223,990.38
John W. Douglas Staff Psychiatrist	Pelican Bay State Prison	$168,179.02	$52,486.33	$220,679.66
Fred R. Buenrostro Jr Executive Officer	CalPERS	$173,352.12	N/A	$220,512.12
Alfonso Fernandez Senior Portfolio Manager	CalPERS	$148,898.25	N/A	$218,683.25
Carl A. Guidi Portfolio Manager	CalPERS	$128,676.25	N/A	$218,403.25
Real R. Desrochers Investment Director	State Teachers Retirement System	$179,209.00	N/A	$217,136.88
Anh C. Nguyen Physician and Surgeon	Frank D Lanterman Hospital	$130,454.30	N/A	$214,994.67
Paul D. Fortaleza Physician and Surgeon	Csp - Los Angeles County	$132,854.30	$82,092.05	$214,946.35
Timothy B. Martin Physician and Surgeon	San Quentin State Prison	$132,854.30	$80,702.69	$213,556.99
Nitin B. Kulkarni Staff Psychiatrist (Safety)	Patton State Hospital	$155,654.30	N/A	$213,527.18
Ba N. Tran Physician and Surgeon	Frank D Lanterman Hospital	$130,454.30	N/A	$212,994.85
Warren T. Trepeta Portfolio Manager	CalPERS	$126,967.50	N/A	$212,827.50
Sang V. Chung Physician and Surgeon (Safety)	Patton State Hospital	$132,854.30	N/A	$211,613.47
Wadsworth H. Murad Staff Psychiatrist (Safety)	Patton State Hospital	$155,654.30	N/A	$211,496.75
Paul H. Kratofil Staff Psychiatrist (Safety)	Patton State Hospital	$155,654.30	N/A	$209,083.22
Lawrence V. Harrison Staff Psychiatrist	CA Medical Facility	$156,854.30	N/A	$207,735.90
Aubrey Dent Staff Psychiatrist (Safety)	Vacaville Psychiatric Facility	$153,179.02	N/A	$206,989.19
Donald R. Walk Medical Consultant I (Psychiatrist)	Social Services	$121,015.31	N/A	$206,416.31
Hazem Hashem Staff Psychiatrist	CA Medical Facility	$156,854.30	N/A	$206,346.30
Mubashir A. Farooqi Staff Psychiatrist (Safety)	Patton State Hospital	$155,654.30	N/A	$205,980.12
Chengxin Yang Staff Psychiatrist (Safety)	Patton State Hospital	$155,654.30	N/A	$205,788.56
Francy M. Mateus Medical Consultant I (Psychiatrist)	Social Services	$121,015.31	N/A	$205,363.31
Mohsen Shalaby Physician and Surgeon	CA Institution For Men	$132,854.30	N/A	$204,888.80
Michael J. Reynolds Physician and Surgeon	CA State Prison - Corcoran	$132,854.30	N/A	$203,607.20
Christopher W. Sangdahl Staff Psychiatrist (Safety)	Patton State Hospital	$155,654.30	N/A	$203,030.24
John I. Benson Staff Psychiatrist (Safety)	Patton State Hospital	$155,654.30	N/A	$201,344.65
Julian Kim Physician and Surgeon	CA State Prison - Corcoran	$132,854.30	N/A	$200,819.58
Johnny K. Dang Physician and Surgeon	CA State Prison - Corcoran	$132,854.30	N/A	$200,577.64
Thanit Hasadsri Physician and Surgeon	CA State Prison - Corcoran	$128,775.19	N/A	$199,460.07
Ronald A. Bortman Staff Psychiatrist	Pelican Bay State Prison	$169,047.17	$30,247.34	$199,294.51

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[drc43]

HMMM Lessee... Reagan lowers taxes... Revenues go up..

Dems deny it.

Bush LOWERS taxes.. Revenue goes up...Dems still in denial...

Granholm in Mi raises taxes.. revenues fall... Warns us about new taxes..

California.. oh well, no one is listening any way...

(Never was about revenue anyway.. always about control..)

[bill1952]

A few billion here, a few billion there. - It adds up...

[Right Cal Gal]

You know, I really take those state of being verbs for granted.

That should have read “That would BE all of us in California that are paying taxes.”

Yes, let’s retire the debt. How about taking some of that lottery money to do it? Because it sure hasn’t done CRAP for the schools.....

[wo fat]

This is good way to get rid of Hollywood celebrity culture. They all start fleeing to more income-friendly places, then paprazzi cannot follow them and take picture all in one town.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Well, if they were good, those CalPERS people could make much more money than that in private industry.

Recent performance suggests they actually aren't very good. ;)

So it's kind of a Catch-22 - the state can pay second-stringer investment management salaries that look extremely high by state government standards and settle for mediocre investment performance or go after some big-time performers who will demand $5 million dollar bonuses but in turn will make hundreds of millions more in returns for the state retirement funds.

[SmithL]

CalPers returns used to be much higher. Then they put a bunch of union people on the Board who decided that politically correct investments were better than financially sound ones.

[upchuck]

Let me outta this Golden State!

Really!

I read all these gloom and doom articles about California and wonder why more people don't just move.