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A California Republican
http://acaliforniarepublican.today.com
This is a blog by a republican about issues of political concern in California. It runs from budget and economics to religious and social issues. The author welcomes all comments and displays them all.
- Added on: Dec 18th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Recent Posts
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The effects of tax increases
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The black hole of California’s budget
There is a projected $6.3 billion deficit at the end of this fiscal year for California. This assumes no actions are taken. Why this hole? Several savings mechanisms have not worked, or have saved less than expected, and revenue is lower than estimat...
DO NOT PASS THIS STATE BUDGET!
To give you an idea how bad this is let me give you a snap shot of where I (we) are at right now with this new state budget and the tax hikes. I am a retired LAPD OFFICER who is now living on a FIX pension-I retired in April of 2008. I have domestic partner-a guy (yea we are gay) ; no kids/ X wives or crazy family stuff like that. We are two guys with great jobs. So, we do OK compared to a lot of people just trying to get by these days-I have seen how hard it is for people to make ends meet as a cop.
We have two pickups- one costs 612.00 a year to register the other 512.00 a year to register (which they want to double!!). One is gas and the other is diesel. We currently pay 5,500.00 a year in property tax- now factor in all the sales tax we pay every time we buy something. The high cost of car insurance living in this state, and all the other “state fees” we pay. When we did an “audit” of our spending in January 2007, we learned that my partner Robert is working just so we can pay all the taxes and fees!!!! Now you want to raise all of this!
The choice was clear to us- we had to leave the state once I retired. Well, we got lucky and sold our home. Like many of our gay friends- they are now leaving for other states! Some (gays) claim CALIF is the only place people like us can live- well maybe in the 1950’s- but not anymore! We could care less about the whole “prop 8” carp! WE DO CARE ABOUT HOLDING ON TO MONEY IN OUR WALLETS! MONEY YOU WANNA TAKE OUT AND SPEND!
We are now off to Texas. Once we leave everything drops in price. Our Auto insurance through GICO will drop by 1000.00 a year. Our vehicle DMV fees by 200.00 per truck! Our property taxes are going to drop by over 2,000.00!!! We will get more home and more land for much less! Robert will transfer to Time-Warner in Texas, and I will go to work as a cop in a small town. We have avoided doing a lot of big item spending-like our new horse trailer (ABOUT 40k WORTH) -why? We can get it much cheaper in Texas or out of state!! We currently do a lot of shopping on the internet-why? We don’t pay sales tax!
This all adds up over time like your fees/ taxes!!!-by leaving we make money-not give it to the losers in Sacramento. In case you missed it- I understand that you may have to “adjust spending again if taxes declines even more”. So, this means the people of CA could face more tax hikes and more fee increases come September!!! NOT US- WE ARE GONE AND LEAVING THIS STATE!
We have well over 100 friends who have left or are leaving the state due to the high cost of living and we are next in line! If this budget passes (when it passes) it will cost us over 2,000.00 in just fuel to get out of CA and into Texas! Sunshine and Palm trees are only worth so much-the price is too high in this state! We live by the words “ABC” which means “ANYWHERE BUT CALIFORNIA!!”
John Smith and Robert Perez
Agua Dulce 91390
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