In today's Pasadena Star-News lead editorial, the writer makes the case against five of the six tax and robbery schemes that on the May 19 special election ballot. Unfortunately, the same editorial endorses the last of the six measures, but again ALL SIX TAX AND ROBBERY MEASURES MUST BE DEFEATED!
The editorial pointed out that they were prepared to endorse all the measures. But, they can not because the legislature has proposed measures that show a lack of seriousness in dealing with the massive budget shortfall.
You should read the whole editorial, but here is something that caught my eye:
Leaders of both parties - with, astoundingly, the GOP being slightly more generous with money that doesn't really exist - were set to give their top staffers 5 percent pay raises at the same time as other state workers are dealing with furloughs and layoffs.
Hello? Who are the dim-witted Republicans that would have backed this pay raise? And five percent? Hey, how about cutting all legislative staffs and having these legislatures do the work that they are paid to do?
And, here is more to back the new-found position of the Star-News editorial board:
Since the budget agreement was passed, over a period of months in which a new $8 billion gap appeared, sensible managers would be slashing spending even deeper. There's no other choice.
Instead, our Legislature killed a plan to freeze salaries for the most highly paid state workers. It refused to get rid of a cushy waste-management board, a frequent soft landing place for termed-out legislators who get $132,000 a year for very little work. A dozen other questionable state commissions proposed for elimination by Sen. Tony Strickland, R-Thousand Oaks are still shoveling cash into the wallets of Capitol insiders because Democratic legislators wouldn't scuttle them. They wouldn't drop plans for a $185 million new headquarters for the Lottery. They refused to sell up to $2 billion in state property California doesn't need.
Amazing! Unf---ingbelievable!
This is what many of us thought Gov. Benedict Arnold Schwarzenegger was going to Sacramento to clean up in the first place. Instead, he is the leading heroin addict desperate to get one more hit off of the taxpayers of the once Golden State.
Commercial after commercial on radio and television is painting a doomsday scenario if we do not pass these six tax and robbery measures. As I have noted, the people that we elect to solve these problems are passing it off on us to sign our own economic death sentence.
Yet the more these commercials are played, the more the opposition grows. And, even the Left Angeles Times is having to admit that not even the "star power" of Gov. Benedict Arnold is going to save these measures.
One other aspect that the editorial did not mention but is very important is how these measures were written in the California sample ballot. Look at it. On Proposition 1A, nowhere does it say that if it passes, it extends the state sales tax hike another two years to 2013. But, that is what it does. Again, read the whole thing. It is mind-numbing.
But, not as mind-numbing as the Pasadena city council and mayor backing Prop 1A, the sales-tax extension.
I have to love the comment of our illustrious mayor, Bill Boggard, "I'm the first to admit that the ballot proposition is not appealing."
No, really?
To stop people from spending money here in the Crown City? Remember, Los Angeles county now has a 9.25% sales tax.
But, wisely, the Pasadena Star-News is not mind-numbed enough to support these measures. They have made the correct call and again dear California voter, VOTE NO ON ALL SIX TAX AND ROBBERY MEASURES!
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