California's financial situation is precarious, but back-door tax hikes aren't the way to fix it.
California's Democratic leaders were planning a vote today on a brazen proposal to raise gas, sales and income taxes through a series of legal maneuvers that would bypass the Legislature's minority Republicans.The Democratic gambit, announced Wednesday, would raise $9.3 billion to ease the state's fiscal crisis by increasing sales taxes by three-fourths of a cent and gas taxes by 13 cents a gallon, starting in February. The plan would add a surcharge of 2.5% to everyone's 2009 state income tax bill.
The rumble you hear is the stampede of productive people fleeing the state.
Ok, so that raises 9.3 billion but that is about half of what they need I believe.
The stampede will only start when the pain becomes more than the pleasure of living there and I don't see that starting for a while yet.
I would much prefer to see Californians rise up and march to Sacramento to take back goverment - by force if necessary. That place is sickening.
I completely agree, but do you think that's going to happen? Californians seem more eager to "rise up" against Mormons than against their anointed elite. (But not against blacks and Hispanics I guess... maybe they're too "scary" for the white liberals nuts to mess with?)