I read a recent post by Sacramento Bee writer Steve Weigand over on the Bee’s Capitol Alert Website (it’s free and FR recommended, but registration is required)… There Steve belittles legislative Republicans for celebrating Tax Freedom Day earlier this week (the day in the year when, for Californians, you have finished earning enough money to pay your combined federal, state and local tax burden for the year if everything earned to now went to pay those taxes and fees). Steve end’s his comments thusly:
Anyway, the Reep lawmakers gathered in the Capitol press conference room to repeat the party mantra: Taxes are bad, Proposition 13 is sacred and Democrats and bureaucrats are to blame for the Golden State not being more golden.
"California has the fourth-highest tax burden in the country," huffed Assemblyman Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar. "To put it another way, Californians are working for the government one-third of the time."
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May 3rd, 2008 at 12:00 am
Weigand presents the straw man argument that to oppose high taxes is to oppose ALL taxes. Perhaps it is a good point for liberals to make, given the inability of too many people to see the obvious fallacy of logic.
Perhaps THAT’S why liberals are more interested in measuring the quality of education by the amount spent, rather than the results attained. To continue their hold on government requires an electorate INDOCTRINATED rather than EDUCATED.
A better educated voter is a threat to the effectiveness of liberal bombast.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:00 am
Any thinking person knows hardly anything in life is “fair”.
Remember “moderates” when you meet with Herr Arnold on taxes….taxes are FOREVER….and for many moons in the future they will be classified “fair” while average occupants of California will be filling out laborious sales tax reports and making revenue submissions to over pensioned government workers..
I cannot imagine the average gardener dealing with a sales tax license or a immigrant nail salon owner…
No taxes period….comprende