Tax and Spend Democrats
Posted at 12:26pm on Jun. 6, 2008 Democrats Can't Abandon The Most Important Issue Facing The Planet Fast Enough
So much for the "New Direction" Congress
By haystack
So sayeth Sen. Mitch McConnell at least:
The message is clear: the majority can’t abandon this bill fast enough.
So now we’re in a most peculiar situation. On the one hand, the majority says climate change is the most important issue facing the planet. Yet they’ve rushed the debate on that topic and brought the bill to a premature end. They brought it down before we could vote on gas prices, on clean energy technology, or on protecting American jobs.
This whole exercise will have had no effect on either climate change or gas prices. But it does send an unambiguous message: on the issue of high gas prices, our friends on the other side have no plan to lower the price at the pump.
Look, folks, this can't be emphasized enough: Democrats are bad for Americans. They see Government "largesse" as the answer to everything. They see spending large sums of money (that would be OUR money) as the way to solve problems, and they seem to think their nifty little "back-room wheeling and dealing" will go right over our heads somehow...that we'll just trudge along like good little sheep whenever we hear some pretty little words like "hope, faith, and optimism" or Hope and Change and Change and Hope.
For the moment, at least, the most recent attempt by the Democrats to crush us under the weight of a bloated Government and higher taxes and bureaucratic interventionalism has been stopped. It's too late to stop the Farm Bill, we're STILL waiting for them to fund the Troops (which they are in no hurry to do nearly 500 days after being asked to do so), we escaped the Immigration disaster by the skin of our teeth, and they are hell-bent on trying to cram the Energy bill down our throats as early as next week. S. 3044 means to introduce an all-out assault on us, indirectly, by attacking big oil and anyone that makes "too much" money...and they'll be blaming the President for it for good measure.
The promises of a New Direction and an ethical and transparent Congress have been broken. Say what you will about President Bush's approval numbers...Congress enjoys HALF as much approval as he does, and they can't seem to get out of their own way. They have failed themselves, their constituents, and the rest of us poor slobs out here just trying to make ends meet.
November 2008 is just around the corner. These guys must be fired and replaced before they drive "we the People" into the ground.
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Posted at 1:02am on Apr. 5, 2008 California Democrats seek stealth tax hike
By Neil Stevens
Sacramento Democrats are looking to sneak in a tax increase by abusing a technicality of the California Constitution. Normally, all tax increases require two-thirds of each house of the legislature, which means in practice Republicans can and do veto tax increases.
However now Assemblyman Charles Calderon, Democrat of Los Angeles, wants to amend the state sales tax law in a way that he says will require Apple's customers to pay sales taxes on all iTunes downloads, applying state sales taxes on a service instead of a tangible good for the first time.
Because this proposal redefines and expands an existing term in the state lawbooks, rather than creating a tax increase, Calderon and other tax-hungry Democrats claim that only a simple majority is required, which means the tax hike can sail through the Democratic-controlled legislature without a single Republican vote.
Anything to swipe a buck from our pockets. That's the Democratic Party way.
