Definition of Insanity- Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. (Also See- Democratic Buget Prososals)
Last week, liberal newspapers up and down the state published editorials supporting Governor Schwarzenegger’s budget proposal. But that is not enough for the special interests and the Democrat controlled Legislature. They come up with their own plan!
An editorial in the Riverside Press Enterprise sums it up best:
The budget proposal that Assembly Democrats unveiled Tuesday would set California on a (familiar) road to fiscal disaster.
Tax increases and increased spending…that about sums up the Democratic Budget Proposal. All they have to offer is the same old tax and spend scheme that put us in debt in the first place.
In 1995-96, state income tax on stock options and capital gains -- mostly the province of the well-to-do -- brought in about $2 billion. By 2000-01, that revenue hit $17 billion, then fell to $5 billion two years later. By then California had committed the higher sum to ongoing programs, causing the state's current budget mess.
The Democrats in the legislature have refused to face the reality that California has a spending problem. Or rather, they have a spending problem! No matter how much money comes into the state coffers, they find a way to spend more. And they haven’t seen a government program they didn’t like. Unless of course a Republican proposes it.
But it is not as though they are incapable of saying “NO!” They’ve said “No” to fiscal accountability in schools. They’ve said “No” to any attempt to reform our state pension system, which has seen the cost to taxpayers go from $150 million to over $2.2 billion in the last five years. They have said “No” to allowing school districts to save millions of dollars by contracting out some nonacademic services. They even said “NO” to school textbooks that are over 200 pages! (See “Children Can’t Read? Get Rid of The Books!” )
They know how to say “No.” They just can’t seem to say it to the special interests.
Craig DeLuz
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www.craigdeluz.com
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