As we editorialized today (against it, by the way), the drum beat for new taxes on Californians is getting louder.
This just in from the Sacramento Bee:
One of California’s most powerful union groups is spending $1 million in a television advertising blitz to urge Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature to solve the state’s budget crisis with both spending cuts and new taxes.
The ad, airing starting today in the Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego media markets, essentially challenges Schwarzenegger’s claim that voters who rejected the May 19 special election budget reform initiatives were casting votes against new taxes.
Got that? When you voted down new taxes by a 2-1 margin, you weren’t really voting against new taxes. George Orwell would have to smile at the union-speak.
RELATED POSTS:
There was over $4 million spent promoting Prop 1A, and it failed miserably.
$1 million is not going to do jack. If the SEIU think for a second that their campaign to raise taxes is goijng to fly, AFTER just being spanked on the Props, then they need to get their heads checked for brain damage.
They could spend $10 million and they would still lose in a landslide. People just do not have the cash. It’s that simple, but they just don’t get it.
JV,
boy I hope you are right. If the Dems can get six Republicans to stab us in the back just one more time……..
I am hoping that public pressure can hold back legislative action until past the close of this political year. $10 million can have an influence because the starving babies and burned -out home ads are going to hit the TV by the middle of this July.
Why do you think Sacramento started with BS cuts like the parks? That is about the only place folks can go for cheap recreation. Punish you bad voters.
If we can make it to next April when the next wave of taxes hits the pocketbooks, killing the excessive spending will be easier. In addition by then 80% of CA will have paid the new car tax.
And you are right again; they just don’t get it.
Once again, the voters in California have options. You would not have to worry about 6 Reps stabbing you in the back, or 100 % of the Dems if they were not in the assembly in the first place. And don’t forget how proud the unions and Dems were when they thumped Arnold’s 4 props. Let’s face it, the people of California blown it by electing this liberal spending assembly. Does anyone care to wager anything against 80 or 90 % of the assembly being re-elected?
I couldn’t agree more with the previous 3 posters. There should be some moreinitiaitves on the next ballot:
1. Double dipping made illegal. If you receive a pension from a previous state or federal job, you can’t hold another state position.
2. Donations by unions and lobbyists are made illegal.
3. If the budget isn’t balanced by the start of the fiscal year, law makers salaries and all perks are not paid.
4. If you serve on multiple boards within the State, you can only receive compensation from one (check out our illustrious State Controllers web site).
5. If you are a state employee, you can serve on as many boards as you can, but you will not receive any compensation other than travel reimbursement.
These will continue sending a message from the voters that maybe, just maybe, the legislators may begin to hear.
If unions and lobbyists are banned from making contributions so should chambers of commerce and industry trade associations. What’s good for the goose, and all…
marcotico says:
If unions and lobbyists are banned from making contributions so should chambers of commerce and industry trade associations. What’s good for the goose, and all…
===================
Agree 100%!
Small donatiosns should be allowed, but NO large, big bucks from ANY source should be allowed.
Between BigBusiness and Public Unions we have created the twin spirals of special interst death.
Ioufca has some good points. I would add that the retirement age be lifted to age 62-67 to be more in line with SS, and limit pensions to no more than 40%-50% of highest years pay.
BTW, what does Iou-f-CA stand for (I have some pretty good acronyms buzzing around in my head right now).