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Flap’s Links and Comments for May 1st on 13:50
These are my links for May 1st from 13:50 to 14:20:
- Untitled (http://www.sacbee.com/2011/05/01/3592230/dan-walters-steinberg-proposes.html#mi_rss=Dan%20Walters?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter) – Darrell Steinberg proposes sensible California tax plan?
- Darrell Steinberg proposes sensible California tax plan? – They had no way of knowing it, but when voters approved Proposition 13 in 1978, they created a nettlesome juxtaposition of sociopolitical megatrends.
The measure – which imposed a tight limit on local property taxes – was enacted just as California began to undergo massive demographic and economic shifts, and as the state Capitol's culture was changing.
The unintended consequence was that fiscal power of an increasingly complex state was shifted from local voters and officials into a Capitol that was becoming more crassly political, more ideologically divided and ill-equipped to make effective policy.
The result, more than three decades later, is political paralysis, as the chronic budgetary imbroglio attests.
It is impossible for the governor and the Legislature to make one-size-fits-all fiscal policy for the most complex society in the Western Hemisphere.
Jerry Brown, who was governor when Proposition 13 passed and is back in the gubernatorial saddle again, acknowledges this fundamental problem by proposing what he calls "realignment" – pushing some programs back down to county governments.========
Read it all….
Uh No.
Dan Walters forgets what happened prior to Prop 13. The cities and counties would tax and spend like drunken sailors. So, would the state – hence the current state of affairs.
Education funding must be equalized because of Serrano Priest so taxpayers will leave heavily taxed counties to less taxed ones and demand the same services.
The Problem today is the failure to reform the welfare system, education system, and illegal immigration.
Without those reforms, taxes may be shifted from state to counties and taxes will massively increase for all. More businesses and young taxpayers will leave for less heavily taxed states.
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Flap’s Links and Comments for April 27th on 08:01
These are my links for April 27th from 08:01 to 15:52:
- California Democrat State Senate Leader Darrell Steinberg considers cuts targeting GOP districts – Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg today said he is willing to consider calls to target GOP districts with steeper cuts if legislative Republicans will not vote for taxes or to put taxes on a statewide ballot as part of a budget solution.
"When it comes to kids or the vulnerable, I wouldn't want to make distinctions between who lives in a Democratic district and who lives in a Republican district, but when it comes to sort of basic services, convenience services that affect adults… I have an open mind," Steinberg told reporters after speaking at a Sacramento Press Club luncheon.
The Sacramento Democrat said he thinks a targeted-cuts scenario like the one state Treasurer Bill Lockyer laid outin an interview with the Bay Area News Group-East Bay's editorial board comes down to "basic fairness."
"You don't want to pay for government, well then, you get less of it," he said.
Jann Taber, spokeswoman for Senate GOP leader Bob Dutton, said any blame for an all-cuts approach should be placed on the Democrats for rejecting the proposals already offered by Republicans.
"If they're threatening cutting services in Republican districts it's because they're unwilling to stand up to the public employee unions and allow voters to vote on a spending cap and pension reform as part of a budget deal," she said.
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So, what else is new?
Drive more folks out of California and you will be left with low wage government supported residents.
Way to attract more business to California, Steinberg…..
By the way, not many people on state welfare here and the public K-12 schools are mainly populated with the children of illegal aliens. So, cut away.
- Census Watch: 2010 Latino Electorate = More Voters and More Non-Voters | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Census Watch: 2010 Latino Electorate = More Voters and More Non-Voters #tcot #catcot
- Dilbert April 22, 2011 – Nice Way | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Dilbert April 22, 2011 – Nice Way #tcot #catcot
- President 2012 Poll Watch: Romney 46% Vs. Obama 43% | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012 Poll Watch: Romney 46% Vs. Obama 43% #tcot #catcot
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- President 2012 GOP Poll Watch: Donald Trump Polling Unpopular in Swing States | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – President 2012 GOP Poll Watch: Donald Trump Polling Unpopular in Swing States #tcot #catcot
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: Washington’s Largest Private Dental Insurance Company Cuts Dentists Reimbursements 15 Per Cent – Washington's Largest Private Dental Insurance Company Cuts Dentists Reimbursements 15 Per Cent
- Betsy McCaughey: Medicare As We’ve Known It Isn’t an Option – WSJ.com – Medicare As We've Known It Isn't an Option
- Flap’s Links and Comments for April 27th on 06:02 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for April 27th on 06:02 #tcot #catcot
- California Democrat State Senate Leader Darrell Steinberg considers cuts targeting GOP districts – Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg today said he is willing to consider calls to target GOP districts with steeper cuts if legislative Republicans will not vote for taxes or to put taxes on a statewide ballot as part of a budget solution.