Opinion: Lack of trust poisons Sacramento politics
By Jon Coupal
The biggest challenge for California Republicans this year will be trusting Democrats.
There’s a lot of loose talk making its way around the halls of the state Capitol these days about Republican irrelevance. Gov. Jerry Brown has made it clear that he is going to bypass the Legislature, where some Republican votes would be needed to increase taxes, and instead push for more taxes via ballot measure.
This strategy follows on the heels of Senate President Pro Tem Darrel Steinberg’s declaration last summer that Democrats will be working without Republicans to increase job growth in California. This is a particularly risky course for Democrats. California’s Democrats have three vulnerabilities:
— Erosion of the quality of public schools;
— Mismanagement of government finances; and
— Inability to foster private sector job creation.
By declaring Republican legislators to be irrelevant, they are assuming full responsibility for fixing the state government’s fiscal health and California’s high unemployment rate, itself the result of the accumulation of decades of Democratic-dominated regulatory and fiscal policies. We will all have to see how well that works out. There’s an old adage that says be careful what you wish for. Cooler heads among Democratic leaders might question whether it’s such a good idea to take on full accountability for California’s economic future.
Jon Coupal is the president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
Decades of increasingly oppressive government control and increasing taxes and fees has put California in a death spiral. It’s education system has indoctrinated generations of children with socialist teachings.
It is not rocket science. The founding fathers new that this was the historical trend of government and created a federation of States where people could vote with their feet and leave oppression and excess taxation for other states that offered more freedoms and opportunities.
California is ranked at the bottom of the research report ‘Freedom in the 50 States’ by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Ranked 48 with only New York and New Jersey ranked less free than CA.
Freedom loving Americans should vote against the tyranny of the leftist government and leave the state. That is what the founding fathers would expect of free men.
Every property owner needs to join the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association to protect Proposition 13. Without Pro. 13,
your property taxes could climb to unmanageable levels. Check it out.
Don’t reward legislators and politicians with more tax increases for their mismanagement, wasteful spending, unnecessary and unproductive programs and agencies, absurd pensions, senseless government grants, and useless commissions which merely serve as comfortable, well-paid landing spots for their termed-out cronies. The list goes on and on.
No new taxes.