Posted by
RepublicanEvangelist on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 9:32:11 PM
No, I don't think we are the Golden State anymore. Perhaps it is just fools gold. I have lived in California for nearly twenty years. I married my wife in Laguna Beach. I bought my first and second home here. My two children were born here. I can't pay any more taxes. We already pay over 600 a month for property taxes. Income taxes are already nearly 10 percent. Sales tax is 8.25%. We have one of the highest gas taxes in the nation. Car registration is linked to the value of your car which means we all pay several hundred a year in car tax fees. This current budget with its massive tax increases may break us and force us to leave the state. We are witnessing Detroit on a statewide scale. The Democrats just need one Republican in the State Senate to cave and they will get their massive tax increases including a 1.5% sales tax hike, 12 cents a gallon gasoline tax increase, doubling of the vehicle registration, and a 5% surcharge on income tax. I have no idea if that means marginal rates are going up or it is a tax on a tax. Regardless it is too much. If these tax increases go through, many middle and upper earners will leave. The people getting the bulk of services will stay. The result will be Detroit. The Republcan considering voting for the bill, the last holdout if you will, is Able Maldonado. He must be called immediately and urged strongly to keep his vote no and to not support a tax increase on already hurting Californians. His phone number is 916-651-4015. Please do this immediately before he votes for the bill. Then it will be too late for us and California.