Comments on: California voters OK 63% of tax measures

By: Hondo

Hondo — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:49:20 +0000

The tax increases will pass because most of the voters don’t pay taxes. But the tax increases will never work. Just look at Illinois. They passed huge tax increases to balance their budgets and they are facing more huge deficits. When you pay public employees 400k pensions for working only one day in the school system, like what happened in Illinois, you have no chance of balancing anything.
Wisconsin showed the way.
Scott Walker for president!!!!!!!
Hondo

By: queeg

queeg — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 06:04:13 +0000

Wonder be positive….will pass and California will continue to positively restructure…..

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:56:14 +0000

Browns pension sales tax is DOA. Take that to the bank

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 09:20:28 +0000

What is not mentioned is that the backers of these local sales tax increases know pretty much in advance what the outcome will be.

Typically, they get a survey firm to figure out if the tax increase has a chance and what lies need to be told to the suckers…er…sorry…voters in order to get the tax increase passed. Then the survey is presented to the local politicians to get them to put it on the ballot instead of requiring public signatures which is much more expensive than a survey.

If the survey indicates the tax increase wouldn’t pass it never gets put on the ballot. So we really don’t know what the public mood is for local tax increases or how many tax increase measures would have been defeated since many never get put on the ballot to begin with.

By: queeg

queeg — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 05:02:53 +0000

Impressive proclamation!

By: Dyspeptic

Dyspeptic — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 23:32:27 +0000

Wow, what is going on here. More deleted posts! B’bub exceed his ration of comments for the week or something? Some explanation would be nice O great and mysterious moderator. Without the missing comments everything else on this topic is now disjointed and out of context. Am I next? Without me and the ‘Bub it might get pretty boring around here.

By: Dyspeptic

Dyspeptic — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 22:31:16 +0000

B’bub, give me some credit. I have been reading world history since I was a snot nosed laddy. Currently I am engrossed by Pat Buchanan”s excellent “A Republic, not an Empire”. That largely explains my cynicism. I think you give the mob too much credit. When they explode often they just burn down their own neigborhoods like the L.A. riots. Don’t underestimate the Jamie Dimons, Lloyd Blankfeins and Ben Bernankes of the world. Their skullduggery is of a fiendishly subtle and effective kind. I agree that the coming bailouts will be massive, but Central Banks can create a zillion dollars with a keystroke. They always take the easy way out.

By: Dyspeptic

Dyspeptic — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 21:44:31 +0000

I differ with you on one point B’bub. I don’t think the banksters will be left holding the smelly bag of doo doo. They have the politicians by the small hairs. Central banks will monetize the debt and stuff the bankster vaults with gobs of “liquidity”. John Q. Public will get socked with hyperinflation, sky high taxes and asset seizures as a result. Very ugly and coming to a welfare/warfare state near you. Remember, “the revolution will not be televised” (Gil Scott Heron) and “Optimism is Cowardice” (Oswald Spengler).

By: Dyspeptic

Dyspeptic — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 21:23:19 +0000

Chris, no one can accuse you of avoiding the hard data. This article has enough tabulated info to satisfy the wonkiest, green eyeshadiest, sleeve garter wearing data jockey. I think I have spread sheets burned on to the inside of my eyelids just from glancing at it. The only known cure for this condition is an evening of bourbon slurping, which coincidentally occurs in my house every Friday evening (for medicinal purposes of course).

By: Dyspeptic

Dyspeptic — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:49:14 +0000

A quick perusal of the tables above suggests that a significant amount self selection is skewing the local tax increase votes. I think many tax and bond measures don’t even see the light of day in more conservative and rural areas where the big government proponents are politically weaker. Most tax and bond measures occur in typically tax happy left/liberal counties and cities. The line items with a PASS description seem heavily weighted to the usual lefty strongholds in the Bay Area and Northern Coastal Birkenstock wearing, chardonnay sipping enclaves.

Having said that, it’s still annoying to see how many clueless Kalifornians are willing to throw endless sums of money into the bottomless pit of government education, where most of it ends up in the grubby hands of the teachers unions and feckless education bureaucrats. The operative principle seems to be that the greater the failure the more that must be spent. It’s the kind of witless zombie like behavior we have come to expect from our blue team brothers and sisters.

B’bub, your ascerbic opinions crack me up.

Queegy, I have finally figured out where you’re coming from. You live in a parallel universe that sporadically and randomly impinges on reality according to the enigmatic laws of quantum mechanics.