To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (177605 ) 11/5/2003 7:48:23 PM From: Road Walker Read Replies (1) | Respond to Ten,All of these are big issues with the public. Politicians have to pick-n-choose, and the losers (namely the Democrats in this case) will always complain about the sacrifices made. All they saw was the hundreds of dollars per car they had to fork over to an unpopular California government. No one cared that the increase in revenues helped to "balance" the budget in 2003. I think whoever becomes the Democratic nominee in the 2004 campaign is going to be dinged on his willingness to raise taxes. This is why I think voters are less concerned about the federal deficit and more concerned with their own wallets. Of course deficits matter, as long as someone else (the "rich," for example) pays for it. discretionary spending (my apology the the literal semantics freaks on this thread); building a "don't worry, be happy" credit card government. I don't think that flies in middle America, I don't think that flies with real conservatives, or liberals for that matter.
