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The fact is higher taxes will drive businesses away. No businesses = no college students. If all your fee paying students leave, the gov’t will just continue giving you grants? For what, your socialist slant and defense of anything anti-Bush?
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No, higher taxes will drive *marginal* businesses away. Like the ones that are already committing tax and employment fraud.
The ones that remain will thrive when they don’t have to compete with the crooks.
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Rich people and small businesses pay more taxes than anyone. I won’t argue with you on immigration but it is one cause for raising taxes. So why raise them and subsidize those living off the system? Your arguments are laughable.
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Rich people and small businesses write-off more taxes than anyone. They also hire more undocumented workers than anyone and leave the rest of us to support them via the taxes we *do* pay.
Raising sales taxes is the only way to *force* individuals and businesses employing illegal labor to at least cover some of the social costs of illegal aliens.
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No one defending higher taxes has offered any explanation as to why this is GOOD for CA’s economy.
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See above. Taxation is one of the few methods to manage the fraud associated with capitalism and the free market.
[quote]It balances the budget – for what? a year? Then what?
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Yes, for the year. Then its time for a new budget.
