Posted by Jon Fleischman at 12:00 am on Feb 17, 2009 Comments Off on The Budget Dilemma – What Now (Assuming You Didn’t Pack A Toothbrush)
California’s Democrat legislators must be salivating. To
be so close to redistributing another roughly $1400 per family
straight out of their budgets and into the state budget must be
tantalizing to them – because, as everyone knows, politicians in
Sacramento know how best to spend the money earned by working
Californians, right? Never mind that we are in the middle of
very difficult economic times, when raising taxes by this massive
amount with be the deciding factor on why some California
businesses close, why jobs are lost, why houses go into
foreclosure, and more.
Fortunately for California taxpayers, Republican lawmakers get
it. They understand that there is never a good time to raise
taxes, and that there are certainly worse times to do so – and this
is one of those times. The drive that Democrat lawmakers, and
Governor Schwarzenegger, and a handful of GOPers have to pass this
Big 5/Big Taxes budget plan that notoriously contains over $14
billion in new taxes on cars and car registrations, as well as
sales and income taxes is amazing.
Last night, as he adjourned the State Senate until 10am this
morning, State Senate President Darrell Steinberg… Read More