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Re: California the great Democrat experiment
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Fri, 25 Apr 2003 21:38:42 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Costello writes:
> Frightening
> http://www.caltax.org/tthreats/mainpage.asp
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> I like to call my beautiful home state of California the great Democrat
> experiment. Every top government office in the state is held by a Democrat,
> and the legislature is overwhelmingly Democrat. Gray Davis took office in
> 1998 to a huge budget surplus, then proceeded to indiscriminately spend to
> his hearts content. We now face a 34 billion dollar deficit, and state
> Democrats are going back to their age old play book, raise taxes. Ever
> wonder why so many jobs are leaving California and the US? Just take a look
> at some of the 80+ new tax proposals totaling $60.8 billion. Did anyone else
> notice that car registration fees are to be tripled?
We had Republicans George Deukmejian and Pete Wilson before Gray Davis so I
wouldn't call it that much of a Democrat state (Let's toss in Nixon and
Reagan, though I suppose one can counter that both of our senators are
currently fairly liberal Democrats). For that matter, Davis is so
middle-of-the-road bland he could have run as a Republican.
Riordan probably would have beaten Davis, but the extreme right couldn't
stand the thought of a moderate and put up such a patsy that even Davis beat
him. Pathetic, but then again, the Democrats re-nominated Davis, and that
was pretty pathetic, too.
The deficit was primarily due to investments not coming up to projected
revenues (i.e. the stock market went down), but at a certain point we need
to wonder if the services are worth the taxes.
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> Really scary thing is that Davis has white house ambitions, but his approval
> numbers sit around those of OJ Simpson. I really love this state, but I wish
> our state motto “Eureka” didn’t mean, “I found my way into your wallet”. I
> am also glad these clowns aren’t running the federal economy.
"Taxes should hurt"
-Ronald Reagan, speaking as governor of California
(state taxes that he paid the year of the quote: zero)
-->Bruce<--
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