A myriad of opinions on the City of San Diego sales tax increase… In economic hard times, the measure will appear on the November ballot, because the city is also having a hard time and needs those in pain to share some more:
U-T editorial: City Hall rolls the dice — Reform-and-tax plan headed for ballot is high-stakes gamble
Voice of San Diego: What Caused San Diego’s Ballooning Pension Payment? by Vlad Kogan
SD Rostra: Our Own Microcosm of Freedom vs. Tyranny: The City Hall Machine vs. The Rest of Us
SD Rostra: Top 10 Flaws in the San Diego Sales Tax Hike by Carl DeMaio
Read all of SD Rostra’s entries on the tax machinations
One City says No to a Sales Tax… With 3/4 of the city council supporting a sales tax measure in the City of Lemon Grove, one might think that would land it on the ballot. Not so, as Councilmember Mary England was the lone — and decisive — no vote:
The story in SD Rostra (which had the newsbeat)
The Union-Trib’s take
A Candidate for All… I’ll leave you with this YouTube hilarity, as the Whitest Kids U’Know hi-lites senate hopeful "Cint Webb." Hat tip to Richard Rider:
http://sdrostra.com/?p=7319
Have a great week!
August 8th, 2010 at 12:00 am
The poster boy for Republicans Mayorista Jerry Sanders rolls over whining we need tax increases….another pathetic RINO….and this is the very city that sucks tourists dry with bed taxes to the moon while first year firemen can earn 90 grand by working the overtime scam….
August 8th, 2010 at 12:00 am
It’s bad enough that RINO Sanders is supporting a sales tax increase. What leaked out is that Sanders, along with our two uber-liberal city council members, went to the SD city school district with a secret proposal:
In exchange for the school district pulling their parcel tax off the November ballot (so the sales tax will not face a competing tax), these three politicos would troop up to Sacramento to lobby for lowering the 2/3 vote requirement for passing parcel taxes down to 55%.
Any claim that Sanders is anything but a white RINO is no longer defensible.
August 8th, 2010 at 12:00 am
Here’s a variation of a SD sales tax update I posted on SDRostra this AM.
Based on what I’m seeing in my city of San Diego, this should be a good season for voting down tax increases across the state. Of source, depending your your locale’s demographics, your experience may vary. But remember, the city of San Diego is now a DEMOCRAT enclave, with six of the eight city council parasites deeply embedded in the bowels of our local Democrat Party, happily feeding away.
When the San Diego city half percent sales tax increase was first agreed to this week by the city council, there was a short “Breaking News” piece on the San Diego Union-Tribune website. It will be on our November ballot. By the following day there were over 200 comments posted under the article.
What struck me was the OVERWHELMING angry rejection of the tax by commenters. Normally there is a hyperactive cadre of government employees commenting away (often on govt time), but they seemed reticent to come out and play on this.
Then today (Sunday 8/8/10) the U-T published seven letters to the editor about the city sales tax increase — ALL opposed. And I didn’t write any of ’em!
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/aug/08/letters-sales-tax-hikereform-plan-draws-gripes/
The importance of these letters is that they reflect what the U-T RECEIVED in submitted letters on this topic. The paper tries to publish letters in rough ratio to the percent received from each side of an issue.
While many numb nuts doubtless will still vote for this sales tax increase, knowledgeable, literate people are more unified in their opposition than usually is the case.
Perhaps one reason the city employees didn’t write in letters to the editor is that — in such published letters — it would show that many don’t LIVE in the city of San Diego. MOST SD city firefighters live elsewhere –many outside of the COUNTY. And firefighters (who have the most idle time of any occupation I can think of) are doubtless the ones who anonymously do most of the pro-pension, pro-tax writing on the blogs and comment sections.
To top it off, the discredited morons running (down) our San Diego city school district put on the same ballot a new parcel tax — which requires a 2/3 majority to pass. Bless you, clueless board members!
Each tax will help defeat the other tax — we plan to put together an ad campaign condeming BOTH taxes. And unlike the usual David vs. the Big Guy contest, we’ve got money and very powerful Establishment groups on our side.
Even though the sales tax requires a only a simple majority vote to pass, I’m confident we’ll win in November. But just winning isn’t enough. We need to CRUSH this tax increase (and the fake reforms) so we can clear the way for the meaningful reforms that MUST come to our oozing city government.
August 9th, 2010 at 12:00 am
Just like the cheerleaders say…..aggressive…..lets get aggressive!!!!
The California Republican Party is the culprit…..plain fact….in cohort with the governor they spent precious donor funds in the hundreds of thousands of dollars to pass the ballot measure to extend the sales tax increase another TWO YEARS.
When will Flash Report Junkies wake up…..it is not only the whiny traitor RINO candidates….it is the state party leadership….
A major party purge is in order!!!! Withold all donations and let them go back to selling Buster Brown shoes in downtown Fresno….