Posted by Anthony at 12:00 am on Jan 23, 2009 11 Comments
First off, I want to thank everyone for their comments, texts,
emails, facebook posts, phone calls, and faxes concerning taxes and
the need to reject them in Sacramento. I won’t pretend it’s
been easy to have many of the discussions but I’m truly grateful
that we, as a community and as Californians are having a discussion
that is long overdue.
How do we begin to solve a problem that has been in the making
for decades in Sacramento? As we face a looming
$41,000,000,000 (that’s BILLION to you and me) shortfall over two
years the problem seems dire enough. When coupled with the
fact that the way in which the state collects and spends money is
reliant on the ability to borrow. the disastrous credit markets and
our own terrible credit rating, the problem becomes almost
unmanageable
I do not believe that taxes are the answer to budget
problems. What I do believe is the answer is major cuts to
our bloated spending and hardcore real reforms like a spending cap
and rainy day fund that put us in line with almost every other
state in the nation and which ensures that California can’t get
itself into this mess again.
I also believe… Read More