Democrats dreamin' -- a public demanding tax hikes
May 09, 2010 Filed in: Budget &
Finance
Column: Steven Greenhut, North County Times
California's Assembly
Democrats want you to be part of the state's budget solution, which
is how they are touting a series of live budget forums across the
state. In other words, the state's Democrats want you to show up to
their town hall and tell them how important it is to pass an
initiative stripping away the two-thirds budget vote requirement,
so that they will have an easier time passing budgets with their
tax-and-spend philosophy firmly in place. This ultimately will lead
to the removal of the two-thirds vote requirement for tax
increases. Democrats in California believe that the state's
problems stem entirely from a lack of revenue and tax rates that
they always find to be too low. I can't imagine anything that would
be more destructive to California than giving the majority party
unchecked power to raise taxes...