The Sanchez Report

Jerry Brown's Tax Proposal Has Support? Yeah Right

According to the latest poll conducted by Public Policy Institute of California, we are to believe that 65% of Californians support raising taxes on the rich and raising the sales tax. What a crock! I don't care what this poll says, Californians have seen this game before. It's the same story although the sob story has some variations. The victim could be the Firemen, Police or Schools who will suffer if we don't give Sacramento more taxes. I say forget about raising taxes until after we reform the pension program for State workers and cut spending back to the levels seen in 2001. We don't need more revenue, we just need Sacramento to stand up to the Unions and cut spending. In real dollars, not the baseline cuts that politicians try to pass off to voters.

Jerry Brown's Answer For California ... Higher Taxes

Last month I wrote about the current anti-business climate in California. For more than a decade, California has been in a free fall economically due to higher taxes, more costly regulations and an aggressive expansion of government spending and bureaucracy. Rather then elect new leaders with fresh ideas, last year Californians sent the 1970's washout, Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown back to Sacramento as Governor. In a classic case of not being able to teach an old dog new tricks, Jerry Brown has come up with a radical new approach to solving our state's problems. Wait, Wait, Wait for it... He's asking voters to approve the largest tax increase in California history. This proposal is being sold as a "tax on the rich and wealthy" in order to save our schools and infrastructure. Ladies and Gentlemen, we generate enough tax revenue in this state. The problem isn't taxes, it's too much spending. You know, the type of spending that provides cushy pensions to state employees, generous benefits and overtime thanks to the SEIU and other shake down unions.

When will Californians wise up and stop falling for the scam in Sacramento? When will voters begin to ask why our school test scores are low? Why are prison populations are so high? Why do we allow state employees to earn on average over $100,000 and retirement at age 55 with full salary?  When will voters begin to ask why we're falling behind other states with far lower tax rates in jobs, infrastructure and education? Raising taxes is not the answer. That's the same liberal solution for every problem. When have the liberals controlling Washington or Sacramento have EVER called for lower taxes and lower government spending/ NEVER. Wise up Californians. Stop falling for the same lie that's been told to us for decades. The poor will not suffer, the elderly will not die and children will not suffer if we begin to follow the path of other states that have figured it out.

The Real Record On Union Manufacturing Job Loss

For years, we've heard politician after politician moan about the loss of manufacturing jobs. There are many reasons for this decline, which by the way has been occurring for decades. The media would have us believe that Republicans are to blame, NAFTA, China, Mexico or a number of other reasons. It's pretty simple as far as I'm concerned. We are losing jobs because companies are burdened with high taxes, way too many regulations and union demands that make it too costly to employ Americans here at home. Think about it. If you ran a company and had the choice of hiring union employees with all of their demands or overseas workers at a fraction of the cost, coupled with a lower regulatory burden and lower taxes, what would you do? This isn't rocket science people!

From the Labor Union Report:

Just another example on how today’s union bosses mislead the public.

For years, unions have created a myth around manufacturing in the United States having been destroyed by the [ insert perjorative here ].

The fact is, manufacturing is not dead in the United States. It is a myth created to mislead the public on unions’ own destructiveness on companies and the jobs of employees. What union bosses have been screaming about is, in fact, the decline of unionized manufacturing.

While all manufacturing has decreased since America’s current economic recession began, from 1983 through 2006, union-free manufacturing had actually increased by 52,000 jobs.