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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated

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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (478909)3/27/2012 11:42:22 AM
From: miraje  Read Replies (1) of 793881
 
Leeches, fleas, flukes and other parasites will vote for him.

When the parasites become the majority, the host will eventually be sucked dry. Watching California implode is a case in point...

ocregister.com

...Do Californians really want to increase taxes by $9 billion? That's what the numbers seem to indicate from a new USC Dornsife/L.A. Times Poll. It asked about a tax-increase proposal that's the same one being pushed by Gov. Jerry Brown and his allies in the public-sector unions. Respondents were asked whether taxes should be increased by boosting the top state income tax rate by 3 percentage points, making the new top rate 13.3 percent, which would be the nation's highest. And sales taxes would be boosted a quarter-cent statewide. In Orange County, the current sales tax rate is 7.75 percent. So the new rate here would be 8 percent...

...To the question, 64 percent backed the tax increases, 33 percent opposed. "Philosophically, voters prefer spending cuts over taxes, but they support taxes as long as they fall on other people, whether it is the rich or smokers," said Linda DiVall, as reported on the Dornsife College's website. She's CEO of American Viewpoint, a Republican polling firm that helped conduct the poll, along with a Democratic firm, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner...
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