California Voters Reject Tax Increases!!

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The California Results

Good news!! California voters overwhelmingly rejected a tax-hike solution to the fiscal meltdown with beaches that is California. The landslide numbers are stunning, and note that the single anti-legislature proposition passed while five big-government props failed by huge margins, demonstrating a very informed, very focused electorate. There is no way to read these results except as a huge slap at Arnold and the Sacramento sharpies of both parties who thought they could trick voters into more spending and more tax hikes.An aside.

There is an incredible headline in the Lost Angeles Times: California Voters Exercise Their Power--And That's The Problem. No liberal media bias there, right? No wonder the paper is dying, spitting in the eye of an electorate that just shouted at the top of its voices "We can't pay any more taxes!" Big government liberals with keypads and editors who tut-tut the middle class's tax burden continue to misreport the California collapse and the voters' reaction to it, and newspaper circulation continues to decline. The huge vote against taxes and the entrenched special interests that dominate Sacramento, especially the public employee unions, is a huge story and the nearly dead and desperate hard left remnant at the Times simply refuses to cover the story. Amazing. If a new owner returns to actual journalism and especially to that part about making the powerful uncomfortable, circulation will soar. But there's no sense subscribing to a tip sheet for the Sacramento elite.
The great news is that state Democrats risk a huge blow back in November 2010 if they move forward with another sneaky tax-hike-disguised-as-a-fee and jack the state gas tax by a dozen cents or more, as is the rumored plan. The voters are clearly demanding a massive downsizing in state government and an end to huge contracts with state employee unions. The bad news is that this very loud, very precise message of "stop spending our money" from the west coast will be rejected by the ruling elites in D.C. and won't be carried for much more than a day, if at all, by an adoring MSM more interested in the latest "new" presidential initiative. The vote in California underscores that there is a tremendous frustration with the left's power grab, which isn't what the country voted for last fall. The Beltway prefers not to notice this groundswell, setting up a very dramatic showdown a year-and-a-half out.