Republican legislators in Sacramento, so proud of their cement unity the last six months in blocking Gov. Retread’s three favorite bulging tax hikes — vehicle, sales and income — may have outfoxed themselves with their stubborn solidarity by opposing a special election this year to let the people decide.
Polls show that the governor’s proposals probably would have lost.
Probably? That was not sufficient assurance for suddenly and admirably militant Republicans. Across the country, Republicans are dug in to knock down even more needless, frothy taxes required for silly Democrat spending on a wall-full of feel-good junk science preached by our mythical friends in the mythical green energy industry.
I agree with the several angry Democrats in Sacramento who said this week that the tax-raising climate will be more favorable in the Presidential election a year from November when many more Democrats will vote. Dems often lose off-year elections. It is a tough, dirty job, especially in California, to round up a glut of unscrubbed illegal aliens every two years, sober them up, feed them a script, comb their hair and truck them to the polls.
Too many illegal aliens vote in California for Republicans to overcome, and the best bet in the land is that all three tax proposals will pass without perspiring. Odds on heavily increased new California taxes are much more favorable than they are for President Bungler Obama and his fruitcake philosophy of “leading from behind.”
Further, before one more preening Republican boasts, he should know that the Los Angeles Titanic reported this morning the spending-addicted Democrats slipped through three significant new taxes anyway this term:
• A $12 bump in vehicle registration fees;
• Goods that Californians purchase online are subject to state sales taxes (minutes later, Amazon.com announced it was pulling out of the state);
• Residents in wildfire zones that require state firefighters will be assessed an extra $150 annually.
All so Democrats can maintain their undisciplined spending habits on greenies, the unemployed, and social justice scams. Welcome to Oz Angeles.
