Comments on: CA tax increases fund unaccountable spending machine

By: EdSmith

EdSmith — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:08:16 +0000

Every state as well as the fed govt and the fed need yearly audits and accountability laws in place for the politicians. CA has not only cut edu spending below legal limits but has borrowed money from the edu budget that they might never pay back. In CA they spend an average or $9,500 per year on each k-12 student and an average of over $50,000 per year on each prisoner per year. People are committing petty crime to go to jail so they can get free room, board, medical, internet, cell phones, college edu, etc. while our kids are crammed 35+ in each class room in hopes that herding kids like cattle that they may actually learn something rather than putting 20-25 kids in each class where the teacher can have enough time to help the kids that need a hand. The past shows when the classrooms were smaller kids got better grades.Instead our govt give the $ to felons in prison and sets kids up to fail and end up in prison so that they can continue to feed an evermore increasing price for prisoners and a growing prisoner population.

By: C.J.

C.J. — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 21:11:25 +0000

Politicians are politicians. Both Dems and Reps understabd the need to bring home the bacon.
It is the abject failure of our “free” press to report simple facts in the proper context while maintaining political objectivity that has undermined CA’s governance.
So long as CA welcomes freeloaders (and rewards them handsomely for eaxh additional dependent) then the best days are behind us. We are now simply a dumping ground for the nation’s bums and misfits.
Occupy this!

By: jimmydeeoc

jimmydeeoc — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:16:39 +0000

Was all of this incompetence? Or something worse?…………

Worse. It’s deliberate.

They know they the votes of ignorant plebians who are far more interested in TwinkieGate than they are in state finances outnumber any “good government” types who might actually give a damn.

We’ve been down this path many times before. I think I’ll take up Victor Davis Hanson on his offer to read more Classics. I’ve dabbled a bit in the past…….I DO know it doesn’t turn out well in the end. Unless you’re a Goth. (And for the Under-30 crowd here, if any: that would be the original definition – not the current one.)

By: Hondo

Hondo — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:56:27 +0000

Connecticut is the latest state to find itself in a tax pickle. They, like Illinois, passed huge tax increases last year and now they can’t balance their budget either. The govner there said it wasn’t a deficit, it was a ” shortfall”. When asked about having one of the lowest credit ratings in the country he said “he hadn’t seen the article”.
Kalifornia passed a huge tax increase in 09 and now have huge deficits. It’s more like 70billion when you add up all the money they stole from Peter to pay Paul.
The guv in Connecticut said more tax increases are out of the question. But he just signed a public union contract last year promising them many benifits including no layoffs. There is no place left to cut except for the poor, to protect gigantic union pensions. Oh, and expect to see lots of potholes in your streets. Slower response times for Police and fire. All services will be cut to pay the service workers.
Talk about slavery.
Hondo…………..