{"id":13096,"date":"2011-02-02T02:22:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T02:22:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-02T02:22:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T02:22:07","slug":"gop-might-consider-putting-tax-increases-on-ballot-if-tax-decreases-are-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/02\/gop-might-consider-putting-tax-increases-on-ballot-if-tax-decreases-are-too\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Might Consider Putting Tax Increases on Ballot, If Tax Decreases Are Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

The GOP was getting a little bit unsettled by the tack Jerry Brown has taken: demanding that they give voters a choice.  You see, they want to give the voters a choice between tax increases and tax decreases. Carla Marinucci has it:<\/p>\n

Jon Coupal, who heads the influential Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, told the Chronicle\/SFGate.com today that some Republican lawmakers in Sacrameto came up with the idea after Brown argued at Monday’s State of the State address that GOP lawmakers may be seen as “thumbing their nose” at voters by blocking a special election to allow them to weigh in on tax extensions and billions in budget cuts.<\/p>\n

Asked how Republicans could meet or even counter Brown’s challenge, Coupal said: “I think it’s quite easy.”<\/p>\n

“I think the Republicans should agree to put those tax increases on the ballot on one condition: parallel tax reductions.”(SF Gate<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, you know one of the oldest tricks in the handbook to killing a ballot measure? But an opposite campaign that will trick voters into just saying, a pox on both their houses.<\/p>\n

In other words. No. No. No.<\/p>\n

This is only a choice in so far as voting in Myanmar (or Egypt) involves a choice. This is a way to kill the revenue increases and leave our state choking to death.  This proposal is a flat out non-starter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The GOP was getting a little bit unsettled by the tack Jerry Brown has taken: demanding that they give voters a choice.  You see, they want to give the voters a choice between tax increases and tax decreases. Carla Marinucci has it:<\/p>\n

Jon Coupal, who heads the influential Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, told the Chronicle\/SFGate.com today that some Republican lawmakers in Sacrameto came up with the idea after Brown argued at Monday’s State of the State address that GOP lawmakers may be seen as “thumbing their nose” at voters by blocking a special election to allow them to weigh in on tax extensions and billions in budget cuts.<\/p>\n

Asked how Republicans could meet or even counter Brown’s challenge, Coupal said: “I think it’s quite easy.”<\/p>\n

“I think the Republicans should agree to put those tax increases on the ballot on one condition: parallel tax reductions.”(SF Gate<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, you know one of the oldest tricks in the handbook to killing a ballot measure? But an opposite campaign that will trick voters into just saying, a pox on both their houses.<\/p>\n

In other words. No. No. No.<\/p>\n

This is only a choice in so far as voting in Myanmar (or Egypt) involves a choice. This is a way to kill the revenue increases and leave our state choking to death.  This proposal is a flat out non-starter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[204],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-13096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-204","tag-60"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3pe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}