The head of a pro-family organization in California says voters in that state have sent a strong anti-tax message to the governor and lawmakers.
On Tuesday, California voters defeated five of six measures the legislature had placed on the ballot. Results of the vote mean the state income tax increase and the slashing of the child dependent tax credit will expire at the end of 2010. Also, the sales tax hike and increase of the vehicle license fee will expire in June 2011. Randy Thomasson is president of the Campaign for Children and Families. "California voters now have the fourth highest tax burden of any state," he points out. "They want the taxes to go away as fast as possible, so they have used their power at the ballot box to say don't raise taxes and fees on us ever again." Now, he says, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers will have to cut wasteful programs. "The Democrats who run Sacramento -- as well as a couple of weak, liberal Republicans like Arnold Schwarzenegger -- don't want to go against the government unions. The government unions want to keep the inefficiency, the waste, the big time, dumbbell spending that keeps them comfortable and well-fed," Thomasson contends. "And the government unions are very socialistic and even communistic in the way they think the people's money belongs to them and it's all about them." Schwarzenegger and those who backed the measures outspent their foes by nearly ten-to-one, Thomasson notes.
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