Núñez’s bill taxing oil companies falls short

Posted on March 13, 2008
Filed Under Public Policy |

For Democrats in California the solution always involves raising taxes and fees. Never do they consider slowing the growth of state government, spending more efficiently, and not doing things the government shouldn’t be doing anyway. BTW, whenever Núñez and his pals talk about “the wealthy” he is referring to you and me… combined family income of greater than $120k per year.

It was exactly this tax-and-spend mentality in the 1970’s that led to a full scale voter revolt in the form of Proposition 13 and further resulted in the proposition chaos that led to the current structural budget mess, all a result of voters looking at Sacramento and not seeing the hard work getting done.

Were I in control of the budget King of California the first thing I would do is ax the bicameral state legislature, which alone would significantly cut the state’s payroll. There is no logical reason why California needs both an Assembly and a Senate when they don’t seem to do that much to begin with except create bigger problems than the ones they say they want to solve.

The bills include a sales tax on music downloaded over the Internet via stores such as iTunes; increased income taxes on the wealthy; and new fees on large or gas-guzzling automobiles. [From Núñez’s bill taxing oil companies falls short]
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