Two Southern California newspapers today featured excellent editorials on the state’s budget deficit.
Both the San Diego area’s North County Times and the Riverside Press-Enterprise dismissed Democrat proposals of billions in new taxes as being the answer to our budget woes, lambasting them to instead do more to get spending under control.
That position, otherwise known as the Republican position, has been firmly held and strongly advocated by our Republican leaders in Sacramento – who have been working overtime to get that message out.
Well, if even newspaper editorial writers are grasping the notion that it’s time to get tough on the out of control spending, it’s no doubt the voters are getting it too. And our Republican leaders deserve an awful lot of credit for getting that message across.
Just take a look at a bit of these two editorials. Great stuff.
From the NCTimes:
"Democrats presented their plan to fix the deficit: $8.2 billion in new money, primarily through tax increases. Bass said, in essence, "no more cuts" and fell back onto the controlling Democrats’ long-standing line that California does not have a spending problem; "it has a revenue problem." (Republicans are holding firm to a no-tax-increase stance.)
And, in hyperbole at its lowest extreme, Bass asserted there was nothing left to cut except the pay of elementary school teachers, high school principals or firefighters.
Hogwash."
And from the PE:
"California should be balancing its budget by ruthlessly matching spending with available revenue, protecting crucial services and ending nonessential programs. But that task requires legislators to set priorities and make hard choices.
Without such fiscal discipline, asking Californians to pay more taxes invites a sharp question from taxpayers: Why hand more money to people unwilling to exercise basic fiscal responsibility?"