Comments on: State tax receipts down sharply

By: SDSD

SDSD — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:22:45 +0000

It’s interesting how Steve, like most liberals, fails to notice how even though CA passed the biggest tax rate hike in history last year, tax receipts are down sharply. So apparently the solution is still to raise tax rates even more, the brain-dead logic being that maybe *this time* the state will get more revenue. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different outcome.

By the way, you’re more than welcome to part with more of your own ‘precious’ tax dollars and give it away to the state. I’ll hold my breath while you go do this.

By: PRI

PRI — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:41:10 +0000

There’s no more money. Tax increases only would make matters worse. Millions are going to be hurting, especially the sick and poor. That’s what happens when you mismanage a state government for decades.

— John Seiler

By: EastBayLarry

EastBayLarry — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:36:43 +0000

The fact remains, tax revenues are down. So where are the dollars for all this ‘social justice’ going to come from? The feds can just print more when needed, but what can California do?

“Spreading the wealth” just results in nobody having enough because the bureaucrats eat too much while doing the spreading. A better solution is to encourage a dynamic and expanding economy where the ‘average’ person can afford to donate to the causes they believe in.

By: StevefromSacto

StevefromSacto — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:10:15 +0000

I fervently wish that charity alone could help those unfortunate people who need support..you know, those bums like elderly Alzheimer’s patients who refuse to work. But charity alone cannot fill the gap. So it comes down to whether you believe that our government should step in, using all of our tax dollars. You obviously don’t. Apparently you would have people go without…without health care, without food, without heat, etc., rather than pay one dime of your precious tax dollars.

By: EastBayLarry

EastBayLarry — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 05:53:40 +0000

Steve:
Where to start?
Can you convieve of the difference between a voluntary act of charity and a government mandate?

By: stevefromsacto

stevefromsacto — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 05:29:27 +0000

Social justice is communism? Larry, I took you for more than just a Glenn Beck clone.

How about this one: “Whatsoever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me.”

Alinsky? No, actually it was Jesus Christ, although it’s probably been erased from the right-wing evangelical version of the Bible.

By: EastBayLarry

EastBayLarry — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:19:12 +0000

Steve,
Interesting quote. Of course the Alinsky point of view is to destroy the country by increasing entitlements until they are impossible to sustain. When everything collapses, you can then ‘remake’ the country in a way more friendly to “social justice”, i.e. “Redistributing the wealth”, i.e. socialism or even communisim.

Is that your goal?

By: StevefromSacto

StevefromSacto — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:21:05 +0000

“We don’t want to destroy government. We want to shrink it so we can drown it in the bathtub.” Grover Norquist, Americans for Tax Reform

I am surprised you guys aren’t celebrating this news. You’ve effectively choked the state to prevent any new revenue (oil production tax, closing tax loopholes and eliminating tax breaks during this economic emergency, etc.). So the reduced tax revenue resulting from the economic downturn is a handy excuse for cutting even more public services–primarly those that go to the poor and sick.

By: EastBayLarry

EastBayLarry — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:08:33 +0000

Default is inevitable. The question remains: What happens then?