8) These kinds of idiotic proposals have driven nearly half of the state's small businesses to leave for other states, mainly Nevada and Arizona, over the past 10 years. In this case, actor Rob Reiner was caught red-handed using taxpayer money from other public programs to try and ram this lib/Dem pet project through. It sounded so nice too. Why not have universal pre-school for every child? Especially pre-school that was "free" because it would be paid for by a tax on the "rich?" The first problem, was that the only real supporter of this latest boondoggle was the...teachers union. Big surprise. It would have destroyed all of the existing pre-schools in the state and replaced them with taxpayer financed public schools, controlled by...the teachers union. The second thing it would have done is terminate the employment of every pre-school teacher in the state who didn't have a college degree and a teaching credential...which is ALL of them. The third concern was something the lib/Dems hadn't thought of, because they never think things through until its too late. If you put a tax only on those who make 400k per year to finance schools, then you're actually putting a special tax on every financially successful homosexual in the state, to pay for other people's children to have "free" pre-school. Also... 400k per year would make you a rich man in my hometown of Montclair, but 400k per year does NOT make you rich in places like Pacific Palisades or Beverly Hills, so the burden of the tax would have fallen on those people around the state who have the fewest children and need the money most for living expenses... The last point of course, is the question, "If this is such a great idea, why not tax everybody?" It was just the latest chapter of the liberal Democrats trying to disguise their hidden agenda of buying votes with other people's money... .............................TP :x
Thanks, a cogent reply as usual! Dems off to a slow start in Calif. The had a shot at Duke's slot and you'd figure with the way he went out that a Dem claiming to be "honest" would slay any Republican. But didn't work out that way, Rep beat the Dem. I'll bet Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean and the lib media had a whole campaign on how that one race signals the end for the Republicans, they would have tried to make it the bellwheter race...now they'll ignore it and hope nobody notices!!
:evil: NONE of the Congressional seats are competitive here in California. BOTH political parties have used computers to gerrymander the districts so that all incumbents are reelected every two years regardless of who the people vote for. That seat in San Diego is a Republican seat that the computer says will go Republican even if we nominate an empty chair... ...................TP
Phantom............ <t>How in the world do you keep your sanity out there putting up with socialists like the "Meathead?"</t>
re: "How in the world do you keep your sanity out there putting up with socialists like the "Meathead?" I personally put up with it by being a school teacher. My union owns Meathead and all the other meathead liberals. They are our stooges; so I can't lose. If the Democrats win, taxes will be raised to give me more benefits and pay raises...