
GOP Legislative Resolve Having Been Established, How About Some Big 5 Meetings instead of the Big 3?
Yesterday the California State Assembly convened a rare Sunday session for what was an important vote on a state budget. Of course, the only budget bill to come up for a vote was that written by Democrat lawmakers — one that responds to the crisis created by their overspending by heaping billions of dollars of new taxes on Californians. It was well known throughout all political circles that the outcome of yesterday’s vote was pre-ordained, because Democrats are unwilling to make the additional necessary cuts in state spending to balance the state’s books without penalizing taxpayers with a tax hike, and Republican lawmakers have made it abundantly clear that this overspending-caused situation must not be responded to with tax increases.
The contrast between the parties couldn’t be more clear. Democrats are the party of big spending, more government, and less freedom for Californians. Republicans want to empower individuals and family, and think that government should live within its means, including shrinking its expenditures substantially when state revenues decline.
It is now time for Senate President Pro-Tem Don Perata (while… Read More