Californians reject Tax Hikes

Arnold Schwarzeneg­ger and his leg­is­la­ture received a very loud mes­sage from their con­stituents on Tues­day — No tax hikes!  All five of the mea­sures on the bal­lot that would close the $21 bil­lion deficit were over­whelm­ingly rejected.  The only pro­posal that was approved by the pub­lic was the one bar­ring pay increases for state officials.

Of course, the area that will receive the largest spend­ing cuts is edu­ca­tion.  One teacher, Ash­ley Hodge, said, “I’m actu­ally a lit­tle ner­vous.  We need supplies…and the school is get­ting ready to do a sec­ond round of lay­offs.”  Why do law­mak­ers always see edu­ca­tion as “optional”?  Why are spend­ing cuts always applied to edu­ca­tion first?

Now we’ll get to see just how much of our hard-earned money will go to bail out the rich and famous in Cal­i­for­nia.  Get ready, Mid­dle Amer­ica — California’s extrav­agent lifestyle is too big to fail…I also won­der if the Ninth Cir­cuit Court of Appeals will over­ride the vot­ers on this issue, just like they tried to do — and are still try­ing to do - on Propo­si­tion 8.  I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

Source:  Reuters

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