Predictably, the public employee union bosses and various left wing groups are calling for the repeal of various tax breaks on businesses that were part of the infamous big taxes/big spending/open primary budget deal that took place last February. 

In return for their political support for the $14+ billion in income, sales and car taxes in that deal, and support for another $16+ billion in more taxes in funding the Yes on 1A campaign (which thankfully lost), the "business community" got tax breaks through that will save business between $1-2.5 billion. 

Of course, since business in California is particularly overtaxed in the "Golden" state, who can blame them?    Well, okay, I can.  The whole thing stunk — where the business community should have allied with taxpayer protection groups and the Republican Party against ANY new taxes, they instead backed these "broad based" taxes to undoubtedly take the pressure off of taxes on individual industries (perhaps oil, maybe entertainment, or split roll taxes on commercial properties).

Socialists like California Labor Federation Officer Art Pulaski say that, “Not one additional dollar should be taken from education, services for children, seniors and the disabled or public safety until these unnecessary tax giveaways to wealthy corporations are shut down."

Pulaski will never admit that in America, the goal is to have a large, vibrant private sector that supports the minimum amount of necessary public services, and no more.  In Pulaski’s “world view” – I guess we would just print money out of thin air since he clearly thinks that businesses are evil and that “profit” should be outlawed.

Still, because I am annoyed at the insidious “back room wheeling and dealing” of last February that left the average taxpayer getting hosed, I will make this office to Pulaski and his ilk. 

I would be willing to support terminating what he calls the “unnecessary tax giveaways to wealth corporations” from the February tax deal – but only if we take the projected increased income to the state from doing so, and use it to reduce fractionally February’s temporary increase in the sales or income tax.

What do you think about that, Art?  Straight out of the pockets of the “evil” corporations you hate and right into the pockets of average people?  I would support it — would you?

(For the record, I am still waiting for one representative of a major business group to apologize to me for devoting so much time to raising my taxes…  A few have acknowledged that, looking in the rear-view mirror, it was a flawed strategy…  But I’m looking for true contrition!)

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 11th, 2009 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.