While Jerry Brown campaigned for office with promises of doing things differently, the reality is that today he has demonstrated that he is just another tax and spend Democrat.  To ask lawmakers to put what would be the largest tax increase in the history of California on the ballot — and to have the hubris to ask working Californians in the midst of a recession to approve them, exhibits an amazing tone-deafness by Governor Brown.  In principle it is unfair to increase taxes on California’s families and businesses to offset decades of overspending by liberal politicians.  As a practical matter, voters rejected these very same taxes proposed for a two-year duration (let alone five) just two years ago, and last November voters rejected ballot measures that would raise taxes as well.  Brown assumes that voters are either dumb or gullible — as he uses a “Washington Monument” scheme to try to put a gun to the heads of the electorate.  The fact remains that Californians are among the highest taxed people in the nation, yet that doesn’t seem to provide enough tax revenue to feed the voracious appetite for spending of Capitol Democrats.  The cynicism and disapproval that voters have with Sacramento politicians will only go up when news of the Governor’s proposal of massive new income, sales and automobile taxes reaches them.

 
Jon Fleischman
Publisher, FlashReport.Org
Vice Chairman, South, California Republican Party

This entry was posted on Monday, January 10th, 2011 at 12:00 am and is filed under Blog Posts.