California Budget,  Tony Strickland

Senator Tony Strickland’s Statement on the Passage of the California State Budget – Will Turn San Francisco and Los Angeles into the Detroit of the West

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State Sen. Roy Ashburn, R-Bakersfield, foreground, shrugs his shoulders as he leaves a conversation with state Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Los Angeles, left, Jeff Denham, R-Merced, behind Ashburn, Tony Strickland, R-Thousand Oaks, and Dennis Hollingsworth, R-Temecula, right, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Feb. 16, 2008

From Flap’s California State Senator Tony Strickland:

Today, the California State Legislature passed a budget that included a $70 billion dollar tax increase on California families and small businesses over the next five years. State Senator Tony Strickland (R-Thousand Oaks) voted against the budget and issued the following statement:

“Today is a sad day for California’s hardworking families. Sacramento politicians have been overspending for years, treating the taxpayers of California as a personal ATM—and the funds are overdrawn.”

“Tax increases do not, have not, and will not solve our budget crisis. After lawmakers raised taxes in 1991, revenues dropped. Higher taxes cost jobs.”

“Tax increases will not bring small businesses back to our state. Tax increases will continue to chase vital jobs out of California at a time when we are critically in need of reversing our state’s high unemployment. With California already fourth in the nation in unemployment, I fear this budget will turn San Francisco and Los Angeles into the Detroit of the West.”

The current budget now places California as the highest taxed state in the nation by increasing personal income tax by 0.25 percent, by doubling the car tax, by increasing sales tax by 1 percent, and by reducing the dependent credit from $299 to $99.

Well, Tony, at least your conscience is clear in voting against this massive tax increase for California taxpayers.


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