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Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER
As you can see, the tax revenue is down, but the demand for Gov't services
etc. (schools, colleges, state health programs etc.) doesn't go down. The problem doesn't have just the 1 part(low tax revenue resulting in the states looking for other sources of revenue...i.e. the new taxes in the article.) The other important part is the demand for services doesn't reduce(because poor people keep making kids they can't afford to take care of.) If you want to get rid of those taxes in the article, the best way to do it is to reduce the numbers of poor people in your state. See, the reason you hear about California having so much trouble is because it's expensive to take care of the schooling, health clinics etc.etc. that comes with the increase in illegal aliens coming to California. You combine that with a poor economy(generating less tax revenue,) and the problem is out of control. Last thing this state needed was this idiot having a litter of 8. She's a taxpayer's nightmare.
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Demand for govt services is not the problem. The problem is that govt's spending. It is ludicious and wrong to think that the demand for services is causing this deficit and the resultant tax craze. That is what the politicians tell you to give themselves cover. The reality is that this administration has taken the negative spending habits of the previous one and turned it up. Both are wrong but this one has taken us to unsafe levels and they have only started. The problem with taxes of these are that even conservatives when they gat back in power will have a hard time repealing these because politicians are addicted to spending money. The cold hard truth of it is that the vast majority of aggressive politicians ( the ones that rise to positions of power)on both sides of the aisle are obsessed with the power they wield and the main asset of that power is controlling the spendng of our money.