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Once again, SCOTUS called the individual mandate a tax. The individual mandate did not exist before Obamacare. New individual mandate=new tax=Obamacare causes a raise in taxes.
Is that simple enough? It seems pretty simple to me, and I'm neither "radical right" nor "radical left." Feel free to show me the error in the above equation.
Here in California we have our own history of tax revolt - Proposition 13 in 1978 - and the recall of Gov. Davis in 2003.
First, thanks for bringing this 2012 thread back from the dead.
Second, Prop. 13 is largely responsible for destroying California's education system, once the best in the nation.
But on the matter of accusing President Obama of raising taxes on the middle class, it's a grasping for straws argument. Income taxes have not been raised on the middle class and since Mr. Obama won the election, the Bush tax cuts on top income levels has expired. The GOP was counting on Romney wining along with a sweep in the Senate, to renew those rates.
First, thanks for bringing this 2012 thread back from the dead.
Second, Prop. 13 is largely responsible for destroying California's education system, once the best in the nation.
But on the matter of accusing President Obama of raising taxes on the middle class, it's a grasping for straws argument. Income taxes have not been raised on the middle class and since Mr. Obama won the election, the Bush tax cuts on top income levels has expired. The GOP was counting on Romney wining along with a sweep in the Senate, to renew those rates.
I don't understand how any discussion of California Education and Prop 13 can overlook the Serrano Decision that forever changed how education in California is funded and was a huge factor the the grass roots support that made Prop 13 law?
Prior to Serrano, California was known for excellent public education... Serrano took local tax dollars going to local schools and sent them to the State to allocate...
It's one thing to pay high taxes for the local school and quite another when the money leaves the district.
Even so... California does have some outstanding public schools and school districts 35 years after Prop 13.
I know that I am paying more... just selling my home triggers a new tax the President introduced.
I don't understand how any discussion of California Education and Prop 13 can overlook the Serrano Decision that forever changed how education in California is funded and was a huge factor the the grass roots support that made Prop 13 law?
Prior to Serrano, California was known for excellent public education... Serrano took local tax dollars going to local schools and sent them to the State to allocate...
It's one thing to pay high taxes for the local school and quite another when the money leaves the district.
Even so... California does have some outstanding public schools and school districts 35 years after Prop 13.
I know that I am paying more... just selling my home triggers a new tax the President introduced.
Democrats here justify the process by pretending that the money all goes back to the school districts and that Sacramento knows best how to spend the money.
Most of the money ends up funding special interest projects favored by the powerful liberal public sector unions that dominate the state government in this disaster zone of a state, or go into the general fund where they are spent on prisons, something that California spends more on each year than K-12 education, the overcrowding of which Democratic Gov. Brown is fighting federal court orders to alleviate.
It is outright theft - and perpetuated by the Democratic politicians and the robots who send them to Sacramento.
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