Posted by
RepublicanEvangelist on Thursday, February 12, 2009 1:50:08 PM
Even if they are CFL's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_fluorescent_lamp . This is madness. California is on the verge of suicide. Oh, when states kill themselves, they don't blow their brains out after listening to Morrissey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrissey . No, they just set themselves on a path leading to inevitable destruction. We are witnessing California becoming a statewide version of Detroit. In the new proposed budget deal California taxpayers will see : Sales tax increase to 9.75%, doubling of vehicle licensing fees, gasoline tax increase of 12 cents a gallon, and my favorite the tax on a tax surcharge of 2.5% of your total tax bill including federal. California is in the import/export business. California is exporting the middle class and companies to Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and otehr lower tax, lower cost of living/operating states. We are importing 3rd world poverty and people who are net consumers of government services. Neptune Orient Line, a steamship line, will join Hyundai MM, and Hanjin Lines in Phoenix Arizona. There isn't an ocean within 400 miles of Phoenix but these companies choose to locate there because of the lower cost of operations and the better quality of life for it's employees. Intel, a silicon valley company for the moment, is increasing production at their plants. No, not in California. That would be insane. No they are increasing their production in Arizona and New Mexico. I received the below email from a good Republican in California who is resisting the Governor and Democratic Legistature's budget deal and urgers his colleagues to do the same. I am not hopeful.
Senator Dennis Hollingsworth Releases Statement on Budget Proposal
“The tentative deal reported in the Sacramento Bee today, if supported by Republicans will be a disaster for all Californians, the state budget and for Republicans as a party. Punishing every Californian by increasing their taxes, especially in a time such as this, is not only wrong-headed for the economy, it is simply morally wrong to demand the people reach deeper into their wallets in order to continue to fuel the spending of state government. If this passes with Republican votes, there will be no reason for any Californian to vote for a Republican in the future. The people sent Republicans to Sacramento to be a blockade against tax increases. Once that wall crumbles, there will be no end to the expansion of taxes and spending. The people will rightly figure they can vote for Democrats and at least stand a fair chance of getting their entitlements and programs along with tax increases. As Republicans, we will only remain as the party that gives them tax increases and no programs. I have and continue to strongly extol my colleagues to vote against any tax increase.”
See California has been taxing the upper income earners including the upper middle class to pay for goods and services to the bottom half. So the people who benefit from the government largess do not pay for it. In fact, they demand more and more and elect Democrats who give them more and more. This is the Fall of a Republic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Tyler in action :
A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence:
- From bondage to spiritual faith;
- From spiritual faith to great courage;
- From courage to liberty;
- From liberty to abundance;
- From abundance to complacency;
- From complacency to apathy;
- From apathy to dependence;
- From dependence back into bondage.
For those of you in the rest of the country who think it is only California's problem, don't be so sure. This is the path that has doomed Western Europe. Read America Alone by Mark Steyn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_Alone . And unless the current path is averted with President Obama's plan to tax the top 5% to give to the 95%, America itself is doomed as well. FDR's New Deal did not get out out of the Depression but it succeeded masterfully in getting him reelected 3 times and kept the Democrats in power for 60 years. This country cannot survive the likes of Pelosi and Reid for 10 years let alone 60. And those of you in the rest of the world who don't live in America, that America is the world's cop. Just think of how great things were in New York before Rudy stepped up law enforcement. To quote Mark Steyn, "We are looking at the dawn of a new dark ages if darkness can dawn."