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“Voting near dawn to end a three-month impasse, the California Senate approved a deal that Democrats and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reached with a GOP holdout to resolve the state’s fiscal emergency,” according to the L.A. Times.
GOP State Senator Abel Maldonado got what he wanted, as California voters will be able to vote on a measure that will give our state an Open Primary. And Maldonado insisted on the removal of the gas tax increase from the state budget. Maldonado also forced the Democrats to accept a measure that will result in no pay increases for State Legislators in deficit years.
The bad news is that “The final version of the plan would raise the state sales tax by 1% and nearly double the vehicle license fee, to 1.15%. It would also reduce the dependent credit Californians are allowed to claim on their taxes. The package would increase personal income tax rates by 0.25%.”
What I found interesting is that the Democrats and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ended up cutting more items from the budget when they canceled the increase in the gas tax. Interesting how they suddenly found items to cut.
If the Open Primary measure is approved by voters it will not take affect until 2012, so it won’t help Maldonado if he runs for statewide office in 2010. There is a lot of opposition to Open Primaries in both parties – and even my friends in the Libertarian Party do not like it, as the net result will be no Libertarian candidates in the general elections. However, we don’t have a chance of winning statewide or legislative seats anyway. And an Open Primary would help get rid of hard right and hard left legislators. Hard to argue against that.
i hope that all of us will renember this when voting time comes around . please vote out these hacks on both sides . please stop putting in the same clowns that voted for a tax increase at this time of need less spending was needed not more taxes .
I wonder what Lou Correa will do when he is not re-elected.
Every last one of the people who voted for this measure should be forced to pay the increased fees and taxes of at least 5-10 of the rest of us each year for every year of this so called “temporary tax increase”!!! Either that or be compelled to leave office immediately….from the governor on down throught the entire legislature!!!!
These people are so corrupt; and the idiot voters say that Maldonado is “the Man”. That exemplifies how really stupid the voters are. That 12 cents will go into Malconados pocket and big oils.
Corruption and stupidity and a socialist govorner that has reneiged on every campain promise is the freeway to Hell for California. Do you know what is next?? NO FOOD! And these idiots can’t fix that either.
But for sure the Mexicans are coming. To eat, not grow anything but the Gangi. james
James,
Actually, the Mexicans are leaving. In droves. There is no work here and living in CA is expensive.
You know the recession is bad when you see white people doing dirty work – and I am starting to see more and more of that…
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