Comments on: Ronald Reagan, tax hiker https://calwatchdog.com/2010/04/15/new-ronald-reagan-tax-hiker/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 05:43:08 +0000 hourly 1 By: njbother https://calwatchdog.com/2010/04/15/new-ronald-reagan-tax-hiker/#comment-778 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:30:37 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=3799#comment-778 I was there as he trippled my state income tax. He was against withholding before he was for it. Thsu he not only raised the tax rate, but collected 2 years worth in the same year.

]]> By: PublicSafetyProject.org https://calwatchdog.com/2010/04/15/new-ronald-reagan-tax-hiker/#comment-777 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:23:27 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=3799#comment-777 Yes, Ronald Reagan, as Governor of California, agreed to raise the state sales tax – from 3 to 4 percent, about half what it is today. How many of California’s Democrat state legislators would agree to a 4% sales tax today? I dare say none!

Percentages are just that – percentages – and they don’t need to be adjusted for inflation.

Take a look at the PublicSafetyProject.org web site to see how government employee unions – especially firefighter and police unions – are effectively looting the public treasuries of the cities they are sworn to protect, and pushing cities and counties down the road towards bankruptcy. One fourth of City of El Segundo, California firefighters have total compensation exceding $250,000 per year. El Segundo police officers also have excessive and unsustainable compensation and pensions, but not quite as high as the firefighters.

See the Public Safety Project El Segundo City Employee Payroll Page at:

http://www.publicsafetyproject.org/elsegundo/elsegundo_payroll.html

]]> By: crescent https://calwatchdog.com/2010/04/15/new-ronald-reagan-tax-hiker/#comment-776 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 01:39:52 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=3799#comment-776 Love these comments.

I moved to CA in 1966 & remember him becoming Governor, but I was a student & not paying attention to politics. I never knew this about Reagan, but can’t wait to point this out to both my Reagan idolizing friends & the ones who have no use for him.

]]> By: blake https://calwatchdog.com/2010/04/15/new-ronald-reagan-tax-hiker/#comment-775 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:04:44 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=3799#comment-775 Just imagine! Tax the middle class to support the wealthy. OMG, he must have been a Republican.

]]> By: stevefromsacto https://calwatchdog.com/2010/04/15/new-ronald-reagan-tax-hiker/#comment-774 Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:14:56 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=3799#comment-774 Just imagine! Reagan actually talked to and worked with Democrats. OMG, he actually tried to maintain enough revenue to meet the needs of his state’s citizens. He must have been a closet Socialist.

]]> By: EastBayLarry https://calwatchdog.com/2010/04/15/new-ronald-reagan-tax-hiker/#comment-773 Thu, 15 Apr 2010 23:11:19 +0000 http://www.calwatchdog.com/?p=3799#comment-773 Interesting info here. I remember those years, but not the tax hikes, perhaps because I had just started working full time and my income was soaring.

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