Comments on: Study finds corporate tax breaks are ‘corporate welfare’

By: Fergy

Fergy — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 17:31:29 +0000

Prop 13 is welfare for our corporate masters!

By: SeeSaw

SeeSaw — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:29:35 +0000

It is very hard for a politician to be pragmatic, and Governor Brown is the best at that. Money is the “mother’s milk” of politics and the driver of such. He bears no more responsbility for that truth than any politician or supremely rich person or entity in this country. Governor Brown loves the moniker, “Moonbeam”. So you might try to hurt him, but you can’t, US Citizen.

By: SeeSaw

SeeSaw — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 18:24:43 +0000

I would never live in the armpit of any place, US Citizen. So if you consider CA an armpit, why haven’t you moved to a state that you like?

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:00:33 +0000

I truly liked Clown in the 1970’s, but we had an entirely different state gov back then, and GED educated cops and ff’s did not earn more than brain surgeons.

Saw an old 1967 episode of “Dragnet” with Jack Webb a few days ago and Friday is trying to recruit minorities and they have a scene where the pay/compensation comes up and one guy says FACTORY jobs pay more than LAPD back then, that tells us how far things have come in the last 45 years.

By: us citizen

us citizen — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:43:04 +0000

I NEVER supported Moonbeam. And I never will. He’s just another ‘keep on spending lib’, that couldnt add 2 and 2 if he tried. This state is becoming the armpit of the US more and more every day.

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:35:59 +0000

“The study reveals that while tax breaks may be intended to serve as an economic engine, they often become wasteful corporate handouts with the government attempting to pick winners and losers, often at a steep price tag to other businesses in the marketplace or ultimately, taxpayers,” the HJTA website said.
Welfare is welfare. Of course TARP was the biggest welfare give away in American history.

By: StevefromSacto

StevefromSacto — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:08:34 +0000

Gee. John, way to rain on my parade. I was actually finding myself in agreement with Coupal and his anti-tax gang that corporate tax breaks are really corporate welfare and need to be eliminated. (That’s something I’ve been saying for years.)

But instead of using the funds from eliminating these tax breaks to help fix our state’s broken infrastructure, improve education, restore the billions cut from social service programs during the past decade, and insure that the budget stays balanced, John repeats his usual shtick about shrinking government so he can drown it in the bathtub. Boring!

By: CalWatchdog

CalWatchdog — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 03:52:32 +0000

The way California is now, they’ll get rid of the tax breaks — but not balance them with equivalent tax cuts for everybody. Taxes will just keep going up and up and up.

— John Seiler

By: Excellent Idea - Going Nowhere

Excellent Idea - Going Nowhere — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 03:34:03 +0000

I’m sure Connie Conway is using this study right now as the basis to develop the Assembly Republican Caucus agenda.

I remember walking around the Capitol at various times over the past 15 years and seeing all these Republican legislators with stickers saying “No Tractor Tax.” Everyone is special! Everyone deserves a tax break.

It’s rumored that at the rate things are going with tax and regulatory exemptions and government subsidies, a man in Chino named Robert Garcia will end up shouldering the entire tax and regulatory burden of the State of California. Robert isn’t paying attention to his interests and he’s a sitting duck.

By: Hondo

Hondo — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:30:35 +0000

Remember when Jerry Clown was for the flat tax. That’s when I supported him. I remember him standing next to knee high tax codes, they had so many pages. Now I believe his own tax code is over his head. No one can finger them out. That’s their whole point.
Hondo….