Comments on: New Democrat Assembly Speaker John Perez is already talking about raising our taxes!

By: Vern Nelson

Vern Nelson — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:35:58 +0000

‘Tavo:

Brand new definition of “uppity” noted. I know you’ve always been on the leading edge of the zeitgeist…

By: Rogue Elephant

Rogue Elephant — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:06:25 +0000

Gustavo,
I couldn’t agree with you more. I’m so sick of the race hustlers in this state. It makes me angry the way that crooked politicans prey on the latino community the same way crooked clerics preyed on my poor immigrant grandmother.

By: Gustavo Arellano

Gustavo Arellano — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:31:03 +0000

Anon: “Uppity” means being tone-deaf to the realities of working-class folks. That is the epitome of the Don Papi. Perez? We’ll see.

Vern: If Perez begins calling taxes “revenue enhancers” like Bass did, I will praise this great land anew for making even the lowliest among us vendidos. Also, if Perez was with UFCW at the time of the Gigante supermarket scandal in Anacrime, he was also part of one of OC’s great race hustles of this decade. I’ll leave it up to interested folks to connect the dots on that one…

By: anon

anon — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:17:32 +0000

This is also a fine articulation of a conservative being more concerned about being doctrinaire (don’t raise taxes in times of plenty and don’t raise taxes in times of want) than with being fiscally sensible. Even Reagan raised taxes out of concern for an increasing deficit.

By: Vern Nelson

Vern Nelson — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:45:13 +0000

And yeah, Gustavo, do you want to try that again?

By: Vern Nelson

Vern Nelson — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:44:44 +0000

With either, Dems reaching 2/3 in both houses, or the 2/3 rule voted out (former scenario much more likely) we could save a lot of the state’s problems by;

finally instituting an OIL-EXTRACTION TAX here in the only oil-producing state in the nation that doesn’t have one;

re-instating the estate tax for dead rich folks;

and rescinding those huge unnecessary corporate tax giveaways that Arnold shoveled into the budget in July.

I don’t think many Californians would object to those three measures — except for Republican politicians that is.

By: Art Pedroza

Art Pedroza — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:34:07 +0000

Gustavo,

Amen! One of my clients already closed six plants in California. They sent their work to Mexico and Vietnam.

How many Latinos have lost jobs because of the sort of policies put forth by Perez and his fellow hacks?

If only the Reeps weren’t such Mexican haters….

What choice do Latinos have but to file as independents or decline to states?

By: anon

anon — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:02:53 +0000

Uppity? Would you care to define and elaborate on that? In what way is John Perez “uppity”?

By: Gustavo Arellano

Gustavo Arellano — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:39:39 +0000

Maybe Perez will be another Don Papi Pulido and show people that sometimes, the worst enemy of working-class Latinos are uppity ones!