Yesterday’s commentary by Dan Schnur regarding the budget situation seemed to suggest that a tax increase as a solution to the current budget crisis is a foregone conclusion. I guess my question is this: why?
The present budget disaster, which isn’t fixable anyway, is as a result of five years Republican compromise with clueless, and very liberal, Democrats. Why, after a 100% increase in spending, we should go back to hard working small business and other taxpayers with a tax increase is beyond my comprehension. Any tax increase will send this economy, already headed over a cliff, into the depths of depression. Even Obama delayed a tax increase – admitting in the process that there is an inverse relationship between taxes and the strenght of the economy.
Let me lay it on the table, for all to see: taxes are our last issue. We’ve thrown away ever other issue we have. We’ve caved, compromised and been railroaded by absolute morons on the left and look where the GOP is at as a result.
I don’t know whether my friend, Assembly GOP Leader Mike Villines, is going to take this budget fight but I can assure you this: if our caucus "goes up" on a tax increase, what little left of the GOP in this State is absolutely finished. Period. And end of story. Republican elected officials: compromise at your own peril.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:00 am
Good post!
Taxes should never be on the table for negotiations.
How about this for starters: cut welfare, cut spending, cut food stamps, get out the scissors – knife – scapel, it is high time to make the painful cuts.
The GOP should be on the side of the hard working taxpayers. I surely hope that the taxpayers would have a voice in Sacramento.
January 7th, 2009 at 12:00 am
If tax increases happen with Republican votes, we will have been reduced to a social club at best. It had better not happen.