http://templeofmut.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/tomorrow-ca-citizens-event-in-support-of-wi-budget-reform-and-wi-governor/

Who are the top two political spenders in California politics, according to the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC)? Must be those evil giant corporations, right? Or how about those evil Koch Brothers, right? WRONG!

According a the March 2010, FPPC report “Big Money Talks: California’s Billion Dollar Club,” two PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS dominated California political spending–California Teachers Association (CTA) and California State Council of Service Employees (SEIU). Nearly all of that money goes to only one political party–the party with nearly a 2-to-1 majority in both houses of the California Legislature and the same party that holds every major California constitutional office. This same party that holds all the power refuses to take prudent action on pension reform. Why?
http://www.fppc.ca.gov/reports/Report31110.pdf

See page 10, “The 15 That Spent $1 Billion to Influence California Voters and Public Officials.”

1. California Teachers Association (CTA): $211.8 MILLION
2. California State Council of Service Employees (SEIU) $107.5 MILLION
3. Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America $104.9 MILLION
4. Morongo Band of Mission Indians $83.6 MILLION
5. Pechanga Band of Luiseno Indians $69.3 MILLION
6. Pacific Gas & Electric Company $69.2 MILLION
7. Chevron Corporation $66.3 MILLION
8. AT&T Inc. $59.6 MILLION
9. Philip Morris USA $50.8 MILLION
10. Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians $49.1 MILLION
11. Southern California Edison $43.4 MILLION
12. California Hospital Association $43.3 MILLION
13. California Chamber of Commerce $39.1 MILLION
14. Western States Petroleum Association $35.2 MILLION
15. Aera Energy LLC $34.7 MILLION

Imagine what would happen if the person setting salaries for your company was taking kickbacks from the employees that he or she hired. How is the Democratic Party’s reliance on hefty union contributions any different? It’s a racket.

Even Democratic Party heavyweights like Willie Brown and Bill Lockyer see the errors in the Party’s ways. Sadly, both these dire warnings are over a year old.

Willie Brown: “But at some point, someone is going to have to get honest about the fact that 80 percent of the state, county and city budget deficits are due to employee costs.”
http://soquelbythecreek.blogspot.com/2010/03/even-liberal-democrat-willie-brown-sees.html

Bill Lockyer: “It’s impossible for this Legislature to reform the pension system and if we don’t, we bankrupt the state.
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And I don’t think anybody can do it here BECAUSE OF WHO ELECTED YOU. You’re just captive of the current environment. I don’t see any way out.”
[QUESTION: Who is the “who elected you”? Is it public-employee unions like the SEIU, teacher’s union, and the prison guard union?]

Californians, please wake up. Like you, I don’t want to see hardworking teachers or fire fighters suffer. But I also don’t want to be enslaved by the state government to pay unsustainable pension benefits set during the Dot.Com economic bubble by SB400. There must be a reasonable middle ground. Unfortunately, most of our California Legislators are captives of their union funders and are incapable of independent thought or action. These Legislators don’t work for average California taxpayers. They work for the public sector unions.

When you are on the opposite side of those three above …. your likely on the Right Track LOLLLL !!!!!!

Santa Claus, Easter Bunny and Free Lunch are part of what they taught her.

Only California is this stupid. How can people from the frozen upper midwest be smarter than the people living in paradise?

“If the small business owner or stockholders are unable or refuse to pay the tax, they close the business or mover out of state or overseas.”

We sure have a lot of experience of that out here in Taxifornia, don’t we?

The tax breaks she mentions were given to business. What many on the left refuse to acknowledge is that business never pays any tax. They pass as much of the cost of the tax as the market will bear to the consumer. The rest is paid by the stockholders or the small business owner. If the small business owner or stockholders are unable or refuse to pay the tax, they close the business or mover out of state or overseas.

When a government reduces business tax, they are promoting the expansion of existing business and the creation of new business. Both of these consequences are best for the citizens of the state.

Government is sanctioned violence. Ultimately every tax comes with it the threat of a sheriff locking you in jail. Allowing union hacks to elect the politicians that set their wages with this money extracted by force from the third party taxpayer is immoral and as we now witness unsustainable. Eventually the unions and the politicians they support will kill the host.