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ParticipantOkay, let’s say this actually balances our budget. CA raises taxes on everything and becomes one of the highest states to live in and do business in across the US.
What happens? Businesses leave. Jobs are lost. Sales go down. All lead to less taxes, and in a few short years taxes have to be raised again because the root of the problem is not solved: there are too many politicians in our state that can’t balance a budget and limit spending.
Why is the solution always to raise taxes? Why are there no state layoffs at upper levels? And I don’t mean teachers and CHP as that extremist liberal example from the LA times.
- Look at state schools: they fire teachers before they fire board members. Why?
- They cut police on the streets before they cut assemblymen and council members. Why?
- Why does private businesses have huge layoffs but never the state?
The system is the problem. There are plenty of solutions, they are just too lazy and too scared to do what’s right.
What would I do?
- Cut the $4 Billion stem cell reaserch program in La Jolla. Let Obama fund that.
- Reverse to $20 billion high-speed rail from LA to SF.
- Open up drilling on CA’s coast – that would yield $10 billion today! And don’t give me the oil spill environment BS. If you’ve ever been the beach in Santa Barbara the stuff washes up on shore.
- Layoff 10% of the state employees not directly providing services to taxpayers.
- Give the remaining state workers who make over the CA median income a 10% paycut.
- Ditch their pensions and make them pay state taxes.
- Cut personal spending budgets, staff, perks, benefits like company cars and private jets.
What will lower taxes do?
Attract business. Add jobs. Both will increase spending in local economies and increase tax revenues and the cycle repeats.
This “solution” of raising taxes does the opposite.
No one asks how we got here. The RE boom gave them huge revenue growth. What did they do? Manage it and save for lean years? No, they went on spending sprees.
Taxes weren’t higher before the boom, why is raising them the only solution?
It’s not. But politicians are too disconnected short-sighted, and uninformed to comprehend that and don’t know how to stop spending once they start.
ParticipantOkay, let’s say this actually balances our budget. CA raises taxes on everything and becomes one of the highest states to live in and do business in across the US.
What happens? Businesses leave. Jobs are lost. Sales go down. All lead to less taxes, and in a few short years taxes have to be raised again because the root of the problem is not solved: there are too many politicians in our state that can’t balance a budget and limit spending.
Why is the solution always to raise taxes? Why are there no state layoffs at upper levels? And I don’t mean teachers and CHP as that extremist liberal example from the LA times.
- Look at state schools: they fire teachers before they fire board members. Why?
- They cut police on the streets before they cut assemblymen and council members. Why?
- Why does private businesses have huge layoffs but never the state?
The system is the problem. There are plenty of solutions, they are just too lazy and too scared to do what’s right.
What would I do?
- Cut the $4 Billion stem cell reaserch program in La Jolla. Let Obama fund that.
- Reverse to $20 billion high-speed rail from LA to SF.
- Open up drilling on CA’s coast – that would yield $10 billion today! And don’t give me the oil spill environment BS. If you’ve ever been the beach in Santa Barbara the stuff washes up on shore.
- Layoff 10% of the state employees not directly providing services to taxpayers.
- Give the remaining state workers who make over the CA median income a 10% paycut.
- Ditch their pensions and make them pay state taxes.
- Cut personal spending budgets, staff, perks, benefits like company cars and private jets.
What will lower taxes do?
Attract business. Add jobs. Both will increase spending in local economies and increase tax revenues and the cycle repeats.
This “solution” of raising taxes does the opposite.
No one asks how we got here. The RE boom gave them huge revenue growth. What did they do? Manage it and save for lean years? No, they went on spending sprees.
Taxes weren’t higher before the boom, why is raising them the only solution?
It’s not. But politicians are too disconnected short-sighted, and uninformed to comprehend that and don’t know how to stop spending once they start.
ParticipantOkay, let’s say this actually balances our budget. CA raises taxes on everything and becomes one of the highest states to live in and do business in across the US.
What happens? Businesses leave. Jobs are lost. Sales go down. All lead to less taxes, and in a few short years taxes have to be raised again because the root of the problem is not solved: there are too many politicians in our state that can’t balance a budget and limit spending.
Why is the solution always to raise taxes? Why are there no state layoffs at upper levels? And I don’t mean teachers and CHP as that extremist liberal example from the LA times.
- Look at state schools: they fire teachers before they fire board members. Why?
- They cut police on the streets before they cut assemblymen and council members. Why?
- Why does private businesses have huge layoffs but never the state?
The system is the problem. There are plenty of solutions, they are just too lazy and too scared to do what’s right.
What would I do?
- Cut the $4 Billion stem cell reaserch program in La Jolla. Let Obama fund that.
- Reverse to $20 billion high-speed rail from LA to SF.
- Open up drilling on CA’s coast – that would yield $10 billion today! And don’t give me the oil spill environment BS. If you’ve ever been the beach in Santa Barbara the stuff washes up on shore.
- Layoff 10% of the state employees not directly providing services to taxpayers.
- Give the remaining state workers who make over the CA median income a 10% paycut.
- Ditch their pensions and make them pay state taxes.
- Cut personal spending budgets, staff, perks, benefits like company cars and private jets.
What will lower taxes do?
Attract business. Add jobs. Both will increase spending in local economies and increase tax revenues and the cycle repeats.
This “solution” of raising taxes does the opposite.
No one asks how we got here. The RE boom gave them huge revenue growth. What did they do? Manage it and save for lean years? No, they went on spending sprees.
Taxes weren’t higher before the boom, why is raising them the only solution?
It’s not. But politicians are too disconnected short-sighted, and uninformed to comprehend that and don’t know how to stop spending once they start.
ParticipantOkay, let’s say this actually balances our budget. CA raises taxes on everything and becomes one of the highest states to live in and do business in across the US.
What happens? Businesses leave. Jobs are lost. Sales go down. All lead to less taxes, and in a few short years taxes have to be raised again because the root of the problem is not solved: there are too many politicians in our state that can’t balance a budget and limit spending.
Why is the solution always to raise taxes? Why are there no state layoffs at upper levels? And I don’t mean teachers and CHP as that extremist liberal example from the LA times.
- Look at state schools: they fire teachers before they fire board members. Why?
- They cut police on the streets before they cut assemblymen and council members. Why?
- Why does private businesses have huge layoffs but never the state?
The system is the problem. There are plenty of solutions, they are just too lazy and too scared to do what’s right.
What would I do?
- Cut the $4 Billion stem cell reaserch program in La Jolla. Let Obama fund that.
- Reverse to $20 billion high-speed rail from LA to SF.
- Open up drilling on CA’s coast – that would yield $10 billion today! And don’t give me the oil spill environment BS. If you’ve ever been the beach in Santa Barbara the stuff washes up on shore.
- Layoff 10% of the state employees not directly providing services to taxpayers.
- Give the remaining state workers who make over the CA median income a 10% paycut.
- Ditch their pensions and make them pay state taxes.
- Cut personal spending budgets, staff, perks, benefits like company cars and private jets.
What will lower taxes do?
Attract business. Add jobs. Both will increase spending in local economies and increase tax revenues and the cycle repeats.
This “solution” of raising taxes does the opposite.
No one asks how we got here. The RE boom gave them huge revenue growth. What did they do? Manage it and save for lean years? No, they went on spending sprees.
Taxes weren’t higher before the boom, why is raising them the only solution?
It’s not. But politicians are too disconnected short-sighted, and uninformed to comprehend that and don’t know how to stop spending once they start.
February 19, 2009 at 10:13 AM in reply to: The joys of renting from the ‘Mom and Pop’ outfits #349680ParticipantGuys, guys, you’re forgetting that renters don’t matter.
February 19, 2009 at 10:13 AM in reply to: The joys of renting from the ‘Mom and Pop’ outfits #349998ParticipantGuys, guys, you’re forgetting that renters don’t matter.
February 19, 2009 at 10:13 AM in reply to: The joys of renting from the ‘Mom and Pop’ outfits #350121ParticipantGuys, guys, you’re forgetting that renters don’t matter.
February 19, 2009 at 10:13 AM in reply to: The joys of renting from the ‘Mom and Pop’ outfits #350155ParticipantGuys, guys, you’re forgetting that renters don’t matter.
February 19, 2009 at 10:13 AM in reply to: The joys of renting from the ‘Mom and Pop’ outfits #350254ParticipantGuys, guys, you’re forgetting that renters don’t matter.
Participant[quote=picpoule]Remember Obama called for a “Responsibility Era?” We’re all suckers now.[/quote]
Yup. The lesson truly is buy a house you can’t afford, default, ask for a temporary pay cut at work and restructure.
I hope you’re right FSD, but you can see how this will be wrought with as much fraud as there was on the way up.
My only hope is the term responsible they threw in there. Buying a $600k house on a $60k income with an i/o option arm isn’t responsible.
Then again, neither is people who can’t balance a budget rewarding people who can’t live within their means.
Participant[quote=picpoule]Remember Obama called for a “Responsibility Era?” We’re all suckers now.[/quote]
Yup. The lesson truly is buy a house you can’t afford, default, ask for a temporary pay cut at work and restructure.
I hope you’re right FSD, but you can see how this will be wrought with as much fraud as there was on the way up.
My only hope is the term responsible they threw in there. Buying a $600k house on a $60k income with an i/o option arm isn’t responsible.
Then again, neither is people who can’t balance a budget rewarding people who can’t live within their means.
Participant[quote=picpoule]Remember Obama called for a “Responsibility Era?” We’re all suckers now.[/quote]
Yup. The lesson truly is buy a house you can’t afford, default, ask for a temporary pay cut at work and restructure.
I hope you’re right FSD, but you can see how this will be wrought with as much fraud as there was on the way up.
My only hope is the term responsible they threw in there. Buying a $600k house on a $60k income with an i/o option arm isn’t responsible.
Then again, neither is people who can’t balance a budget rewarding people who can’t live within their means.
Participant[quote=picpoule]Remember Obama called for a “Responsibility Era?” We’re all suckers now.[/quote]
Yup. The lesson truly is buy a house you can’t afford, default, ask for a temporary pay cut at work and restructure.
I hope you’re right FSD, but you can see how this will be wrought with as much fraud as there was on the way up.
My only hope is the term responsible they threw in there. Buying a $600k house on a $60k income with an i/o option arm isn’t responsible.
Then again, neither is people who can’t balance a budget rewarding people who can’t live within their means.
Participant[quote=picpoule]Remember Obama called for a “Responsibility Era?” We’re all suckers now.[/quote]
Yup. The lesson truly is buy a house you can’t afford, default, ask for a temporary pay cut at work and restructure.
I hope you’re right FSD, but you can see how this will be wrought with as much fraud as there was on the way up.
My only hope is the term responsible they threw in there. Buying a $600k house on a $60k income with an i/o option arm isn’t responsible.
Then again, neither is people who can’t balance a budget rewarding people who can’t live within their means.
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