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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (12693)	8/20/2003 12:52:51 PM
From: the_wheel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 306849

I have been racking my brain trying to figure out how CA can get out of the mess they are in. I am doing this out of the goodness of my heart. I just moved out of there and I still love that place. Well, I know you can't lower services, that would not garner votes from liberals and poor folks. I know you can't raise revenues, that would not garner votes from taxpayers. Matter of fact, you need to promise free stuff, like free healthcare, free education, and no taxes except on the bad people like smokers and rich peoples. So you see : "Houston, we have a problem". Now here is my plan: 1. Blame it on somebody else. Say Bush or Enron. That should work for awhile. 2. Try to borrow money from somebody else, say Warren Buffet, offer him some 'vigorish'. I understand from his interview, that they tried this and it did not work. You could try this with some of the mutual fund managers in 'Growth Funds', maybe sell them some new IPO shares, say Hi-Tech CA Govt dotbonds, with no interest but call options or something like that, maybe hire Goldman or Merrill to come up with something. 3. Tax foreign (non-CA) peoples. Raise the hotel tax for non-residents, say $100 per room, remember it costs a lot to stay at the Fairmont. Have an entry fee at the border and airports for non-residents, a big fee, base it on their net worth. 4. Tax cigarettes big time. If they smoke they are not from CA anyway, and they probably don't vote. 5. Legalize drugs and tax them big time. Create an export business, tax exports heavily. 6. Two extra bucks per movie theater ticket, DVD, CD etc for all screenings and sales worldwide and for non-residents inside CA, free for CA residents (they will need something to do). This will be the Hollywood User Fee. 7. Send tax bills and user fees to non-residents. If they pay, then send them more bigger bills. 8. More for lottery tickets less payouts. 9. Telethon. 10. Live-CAid with Barbra, U2, Sting, etc. I know I am on the same wavelength with some of the major candidates on the issues here.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (12693)	8/20/2003 12:57:33 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 306849

if this were an all-immigrant problem with CA, or should I say all mexican immigrant, Texas would be in the same shape, but they are not. And they even had Bush as a governor, which had to be a huge liability! I find Bustamante's pandering to the latino vote a little distasteful, personally. We have a majority population here (N Ca) in asians, Are we going to hold press conferences in Chinese? If not, then I don't see much of a place for a spanish press conference by politicians. Just MO.