babyseal_IHB
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Did anyone read about this?
http://ocbiz.freedomblogging.com/2008/11/06/schwarzenegger-wants-925-sales-tax-in-oc/4502/
http://ocbiz.freedomblogging.com/2008/11/06/schwarzenegger-wants-925-sales-tax-in-oc/4502/
9.25% Sales Tax in O.C.
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Nice... Consumer spending is way down and everything is going to get more expensive.
Nah man. Our govt will print 25 trillion dollars next year and send us all 80K checks. We are going to be rich.
ahem... whosayswearen't???? (*did i say that out loud?*)
-bix
LOL. Waste and abuse... They have so little money for supplies in the budget, if any at all, that teachers foot the bill. We probably spend $100 a month supporting my wife's classroom and my company supplies paper, pens, tape, etc. as well.
No, he can't. Schools are 'locked in' via (guess who)?
The have-it-both-ways voting public and 1988's Prop 98.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_98_(1988)
I haven't read the article yet, but I find it more than a little amusing the biggest excuse for kicking out Gray Davis is now on the table.........
LAUSD is too big to fail. Literally. You can't chop it up because the Valley subsidises South Central and Lancaster. This is a systematic problem that is literally unsolvable. Am I saying there is no waste there? Absolutely not. It is effectively untouchable and a waste of energy to discuss. Ask Roy Romer. He tried like hell and failed miserablly - not from a lack of effort on his part, and IMO not from a lack of cooperation on the LAUSD's staff.
http://roysblog.edin08.com/
When we enacted Prop 13, we effectively took local control away from schools and handed it off to Sacramento. They pay the bills, they call the shots.
I think Eva REALLY liked that post.
I wasn't here during the recall. But if I had been, I would have voted for McClintock as well. I don't have any new news on the race. But like you, I hope he wins.
As for Schwarzenegger, he has a compelling personal story, and I like his movies. But that's about all I can say good about him.
You do realize that he is part of a genetic engineering experiment don't you? The only reason he married Maria Shriver is because the liberals are trying to create a breed of bulletproof Kennedys...
They are cutting the schools. My husband works with school districts and he's really worried about them and this is a guy who says I'm the liberal in the house. One thing that many people don't realize is how much it costs to educate the special needs kids. The typical kid costs 6K-10K per year to educate, the special needs kids are often $60K and can be as high as $100K. The law states that every child is entitled to an education and the district has to provide it. In the poorer districts there are an even higher percentage of these special needs kids.
If they do their paperwork right, the Federal gov't covers half, but that's still a lot for the districts to pick up. If they don't do the paperwork, or do it right, then it's 100% their cost.
But that was such a large part of his justification for becoming governor. I bought a new car in Dec of last year and couldn't believe how low my registration was. I just got the renewal and it's piddley compared to what it was in the earlier 90's (the last time I bought a new car)
Edited to appease the numbers nazi
ipoplaya_IHB
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babyseal said:
Nice... Consumer spending is way down and everything is going to get more expensive.
jbenko_IHB
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ipoplaya said:
Nah man. Our govt will print 25 trillion dollars next year and send us all 80K checks. We are going to be rich.
biscuitninja_IHB
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Anon. said:
ahem... whosayswearen't???? (*did i say that out loud?*)
-bix
no_vaseline_IHB
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It's not like he couldn't start to fill the hole by following the law and restoring the Vehicle License Fee ..............
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger
Eat sh*t Arnold. Where's my audit you promised when you recalled Gray? Where's my piles and piles of government waste?
They have to raise taxes somewhere, or reduce the size of goverment which means prisons (releasing inmates) or cutting off the old and indgent who get MediCAL. There are no other options. The cut-taxes-and-increase-spending train has ran to the end of the dirt road.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger
Eat sh*t Arnold. Where's my audit you promised when you recalled Gray? Where's my piles and piles of government waste?
They have to raise taxes somewhere, or reduce the size of goverment which means prisons (releasing inmates) or cutting off the old and indgent who get MediCAL. There are no other options. The cut-taxes-and-increase-spending train has ran to the end of the dirt road.
freedomCM_IHB
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you forgot, he could cut schools too. they are half of the budget.
sure, laying off lots of teachers isn't popular, and will increase the ranks of the unemployed.
of course, i'm sure you can find lots of 'waste and abuse' in the typical schools budget. just cut that.
sure, laying off lots of teachers isn't popular, and will increase the ranks of the unemployed.
of course, i'm sure you can find lots of 'waste and abuse' in the typical schools budget. just cut that.
ipoplaya_IHB
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freedomCM said:
LOL. Waste and abuse... They have so little money for supplies in the budget, if any at all, that teachers foot the bill. We probably spend $100 a month supporting my wife's classroom and my company supplies paper, pens, tape, etc. as well.
no_vaseline_IHB
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freedomCM said:
No, he can't. Schools are 'locked in' via (guess who)?
The have-it-both-ways voting public and 1988's Prop 98.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_98_(1988)
I haven't read the article yet, but I find it more than a little amusing the biggest excuse for kicking out Gray Davis is now on the table.........
skek said:
LAUSD is too big to fail. Literally. You can't chop it up because the Valley subsidises South Central and Lancaster. This is a systematic problem that is literally unsolvable. Am I saying there is no waste there? Absolutely not. It is effectively untouchable and a waste of energy to discuss. Ask Roy Romer. He tried like hell and failed miserablly - not from a lack of effort on his part, and IMO not from a lack of cooperation on the LAUSD's staff.
http://roysblog.edin08.com/
When we enacted Prop 13, we effectively took local control away from schools and handed it off to Sacramento. They pay the bills, they call the shots.
no_vaseline said:It's not like he couldn't start to fill the hole by following the law and restoring the Vehicle License Fee ..............
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger
Eat sh*t Arnold. Where's my audit you promised when you recalled Gray? Where's my piles and piles of government waste?
They have to raise taxes somewhere, or reduce the size of goverment which means prisons (releasing inmates) or cutting off the old and indgent who get MediCAL. There are no other options. The cut-taxes-and-increase-spending train has ran to the end of the dirt road.
I think Eva REALLY liked that post.
skek said:
I wasn't here during the recall. But if I had been, I would have voted for McClintock as well. I don't have any new news on the race. But like you, I hope he wins.
As for Schwarzenegger, he has a compelling personal story, and I like his movies. But that's about all I can say good about him.
You do realize that he is part of a genetic engineering experiment don't you? The only reason he married Maria Shriver is because the liberals are trying to create a breed of bulletproof Kennedys...
stepping_up_IHB
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freedomCM said:
They are cutting the schools. My husband works with school districts and he's really worried about them and this is a guy who says I'm the liberal in the house. One thing that many people don't realize is how much it costs to educate the special needs kids. The typical kid costs 6K-10K per year to educate, the special needs kids are often $60K and can be as high as $100K. The law states that every child is entitled to an education and the district has to provide it. In the poorer districts there are an even higher percentage of these special needs kids.
If they do their paperwork right, the Federal gov't covers half, but that's still a lot for the districts to pick up. If they don't do the paperwork, or do it right, then it's 100% their cost.
stepping_up_IHB
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awgee said:
But that was such a large part of his justification for becoming governor. I bought a new car in Dec of last year and couldn't believe how low my registration was. I just got the renewal and it's piddley compared to what it was in the earlier 90's (the last time I bought a new car)
Nude_IHB
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You could start with scrapping that ridiculous process for allowing a direct connection between the voter and the law known as the ballot initiative. Despite popular opinion, this country was set up as a federal republic to avoid the exact kind of short-sighted stupidity embodied in Props 13, 98, and now 8.skek said:
Edited to appease the numbers nazi