April 6, 2011
The Julian News 13
California taxpayers are
reminded of the guy who fell off
the roof of a high-rise building.
As he passed each foor, office
workers would call out, "How's
it going?" and to each, he would
politely respond, "So far, so
good."
For taxpayers, each day
that goes by without having to
confront a tax increase is like
passing another floor without a
bad outcome.
In the movies, the falling man
might be saved by a conveniently
placed awning that would
slow his fall and allow him to
survive unscathed, tn the real
world, the only barrier between
average Californians, and the
perpetuation of a crushing
tax burden, are Republican
legislators who have heroically
withstood the complaints and
threats of the tax-and-spend
lobby (and their enablers in the
media) and refused to provide the
votes to place Gov. Brown's taxes
on the b llot. Although Brown
has cajoled and screamed - one
lawmaker reports that he was
yelled at for an hour at a recent
meeting by Brown and company,
- in an effort to get Republicans
to agree to place his massive
tax increase on a June special
election ballot, these lawmakers
have held firm.
Those who want to continue
to ride the spending gravy train
are trying to portray those who
oppose placing five years of high
taxes on the ballot as democracy
despising, heartless primitives
who care nothing about the
most vulnerable in our society.
They prefer to ignore that their
regressive tax program falls
California Commentary
A Heroic Defense of Taxpayers
... So Far
by Jon Coupal
largest government employee
unions, spent over twenty
million dollars on deceptive
advertising to try to convince
voters to approve tax increases.
Television ads and direct mail
asking for a yes vote on what
was the largest tax increase
in the history of all 50 states,
never once mentioned the word
"taxes." Although tax promoters
outspent the opponents of new
taxes by ten-to-one, voters saw
through the charade and said no.
Still, this was at the beginning a
temporary two year tax increase
and the government employee
unions, who represent the
highest paid public workers in all
50 states, did not feel the same
level of desperation as they do
now that the taxes are about to
expire. Some observers believe
the unions are prepared to spend
$60 million to guarantee passage
of Brown's tax program.
If the taxes go to the ballot,
we can expect to be deluged
with expensive television ads
showing teachers and firefighters
receiving pink slips, as school
gates clang shut and calls to
911 go unanswered. They will
portray the issue to be about
the poor, elderly and disabled
- the recipients of government
services -- when the tax
increases are actually to satisfy
the government employee union
providers of these services. This
is why taxpayers see no need
to go through the expense of a
special election. They do not
want to risk that voters will be
bamboozled by tens of millions of
dollars of misleading advertising
when they already spoke clearly
on this issue just two years ago.
disproportionally on those of So it is "So far, so good"
modest means, for taxpayers and if none of
Latest polls show that public the currently courageous
support for the governor's Republicans turns Benedict
proposed taxes is waning, so Arnold, we may still look forward
why would opponents of higher to a soft landing of a return to
taxes hesitate to put the matter to lower tax rates. Although, even
a vote? For an answer, one only then, Californians will continue
has to look back to the spet:i l 't-o some-of the 'most heavily
election of May, 2009 whichtaxed citizens in the nation.
featured this same tax package- Jon Coupal is .president of
an extension of temporary taxes the Howard Jarvm Taxpayers
Association -- California's largest
that had just been imposed by grass-roots taxpayer organization
the Legislature. The well-heeled dedicated to the protection of
special interest backers of the Proposition 13 and the advancement
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