Comments on: Democrats & Taxes: California is “#1 “

By: Erica

Erica — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:25:36 +0000

California taxpayers pay at least $117 million each year post-trial seeking execution of the people currently on death row. The California death penalty system costs taxpayers more than $114 million a year beyond the cost of simply keeping the convicts locked up for life. less deaths could mean less debt.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:23:10 +0000

We’ve got a couple of fuel yards in CA, one north, one south. If at all possible we fuel up before we enter the state and get out before we run out. But I understand a lot of companies can’t, and I feel for them.

Someday, the donks will be able to look back on the mess they’ve created with all their brilliant theories and all their compassion, stand back, point their fingers at conservatives and proclaim it’s our fault ’cause we just weren’t with the program, and had we been everything would be just like they dreamed it would be.

You see, in a liberal mind, dream = reality.

By: T.A Gray

T.A Gray — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:55:22 +0000

The outfit I work for doesn’t have much choice, we either refuel in Colton or Barstow, and then try to make it Belen or La Junta, CO.

THe only good thing is, we own our own facilities and can ship it from Texas or Oklahoma ourselves, but even that costs money that the company could use for other things.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:14:12 +0000

I wonder how much of that $15B deficit has gone to feeding, housing, incarcerating, medically bankrolling, etc., etc., the criminal aliens doing those jobs we citizens “won’t do” (at their rate of pay)? My guess is the total (with paid taxes figured in, just to be fair) exceeds the deficit.

The only reason I ever go to California is because I’m sent there with a truckload of goods to deliver. I never buy anything there, the company buys as little fuel there as possible, all because I don’t wish to enable those who would take my heritage from me lock, stock and barrel: the donks.

California. Take her. Please. (Back when McCall was guvner of Oregon we had a saying: Come visit but don’t stay, and don’t californicate Oregon.)

By: T.A Gray

T.A Gray — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:57:38 +0000

Well, of course we always throw every single one of the bastards out. But, of course it would take nothing short of that to really bring about a change.

And, thats the problem isn’t it? Everybody thinks Sacramento is full of crooks, except their guy. So we go on year after year after year reelecting the same ego trips in empty suits that keep on doing the same over spending, over taxing, over dictating our lives about everything from ash trays to light bulbs.

Whats that little blurb from Einstein? Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over expecting different results.

By: Paul W. Clark

Paul W. Clark — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:39:09 +0000

The handwriting is on the wall. The only long-term solution for California is for the State to go bankrupt! In California we are already seeing Cities taking that course, when city councils have passed out so many golden eggs to public employee groups that they have outstripped the local taxpayer’s ability to pay the bill. So too will the State of California be forced into this unfortunate situation. Bankruptcy will surface the real underlying financial problems, and allow solutions to be created to put things back on a sound financial footing. To suggest that the elected clowns in Sacramento can ever hope to solve this problem that they alone have created is wishful thinking. Let’s hope that bankruptcy doesn’t take too long to occur.

By: Douglas Book

Douglas Book — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:32:58 +0000

Isn’t it odd that the people fleeing California at the fastest pace are those with the most money and, quite possibly, the brains required to earn it? Yet shouldn’t the smartest among us be the first to appreciate how indispensible Big Brother is in the guidance of our pathetic, unimportant little lives? So how can such bright people even think of leaving the very peoples’ republic responsible for their wealth and success? Don’t they realize that, absent the watchfull eye and guiding hand of the Sacramento nanny, they will be doomed to fail??!! Just you wait….they’ll be back. Yep. Any time now. Uh huh!

By: Mark J. Goluskin

Mark J. Goluskin — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:57:53 +0000

I forgot, the Democrats best enabler? Why “Republican” governor, Benedict Arnold!

By: Mark J. Goluskin

Mark J. Goluskin — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:57:04 +0000

Yes, and another stupid ballot innititive here in Los Angeles county is-surprise-a 1/2 cent sales tax hike! Of course it is “all” going for mass transit. Los Angeles county supervisor, Mike Antonivich, has written about the fact that now there is a clear imbalance as to where the funding goes as far as funding for transit project. And these idiots want us to pass another tax? That would make the sales tax in Los Angeles county 9%. God Bless us one and all here in the Not-so-Golden State!

By: T.A Gray

T.A Gray — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:45:46 +0000

But you see, you’re overlooking the one greatest tenent of faith of the California Democratic Nuthatch.

to wit:

“We know best”

You, Mr Average Californian are too stupid to understand how $200 a gallon is bad for your budget.
you’re too stupid to wear a helmet riding a bicycle around the block,
you’re too stupid to drive and use a cell phone at the same time,
too stupid to fasten your seat belt,
too stupid to not smoke,
too stupid to wash your car in your own driveway,
too stupid to own a gun,
too stupid to know that hot coffee is hot,
too stupid to allow your teenage daughter to have an abortion,
too stupid to home school your own children,
you’re too stupid to even know transfats are bad for you,
so WE, Mother Superior government, are going to either over regulate or outlaw your bad habits, tax the crap out of them,
or find a judge who agrees with us.

The tragic thing is that more and more Californians who remain here seem to be buying into the security blanket mentality that fosters it. Why think when the government is all too willing to think for you?

Of course, it hasn’t yet dawned on Sacramento that driving business and the wealthy out of the state is not the best way to increase the tax base.

Yet their hasn’t been an election in recent memory without a gaggle of omnibus bond issues, for everything from apple farm subsidies and “clean water” to zebra research. And California voters keep right on merrily increasing their bonded indebtedness under the myth that bond issues, are like free money.