{"id":13177,"date":"2011-02-24T02:15:41","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T02:15:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-24T02:15:41","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T02:15:41","slug":"taxpayers-caucus-taxrape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/24\/taxpayers-caucus-taxrape\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxpayers’ Caucus: Tax=Rape"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at the Bee, they have some video of Freshman Assembly Member Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield)<\/a> calling for the state to stop “raping the taxpayers.”<\/p>\n

Is this a valid analogy these days? I thought we were trying to cut down on all the rhetoric, after all we’ve been moving away from all the war analogies.  But apparently, rape, yeah, that’s still on the table.  <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Taxpayers’ Caucus got off to a rousing start, with Sen. Tony Strickland, with his fellow right-wing zealot, Asm. Wagner, there to kick off the party.  Apparently they have one simple goal: denying the people a fair say at what they desire for their future.<\/p>\n

A group of Republican state lawmakers announced today the formation of a legislative Taxpayers Caucus, pledging to oppose Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to ask voters to extend increased tax rates set to expire unless commensurate tax cuts are also placed on the ballot.<\/p>\n

Just over two-thirds of the Republican legislators — 21 in Assembly and eight in the Senate — have signed on to join the unofficial caucus, which organizers say is open to members of both parties. (SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, this isn’t really a problem. It just means the remaining members of the Republican caucus is going to get some extra attention as the time for for votes approaches.  Strickland and his cronies are essentially driving their car straight down the road to irrelevance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at the Bee, they have some video of Freshman Assembly Member Shannon Grove (R-Bakersfield)<\/a> calling for the state to stop “raping the taxpayers.”<\/p>\n

Is this a valid analogy these days? I thought we were trying to cut down on all the rhetoric, after all we’ve been moving away from all the war analogies.  But apparently, rape, yeah, that’s still on the table.  <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Taxpayers’ Caucus got off to a rousing start, with Sen. Tony Strickland, with his fellow right-wing zealot, Asm. Wagner, there to kick off the party.  Apparently they have one simple goal: denying the people a fair say at what they desire for their future.<\/p>\n

A group of Republican state lawmakers announced today the formation of a legislative Taxpayers Caucus, pledging to oppose Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to ask voters to extend increased tax rates set to expire unless commensurate tax cuts are also placed on the ballot.<\/p>\n

Just over two-thirds of the Republican legislators — 21 in Assembly and eight in the Senate — have signed on to join the unofficial caucus, which organizers say is open to members of both parties. (SacBee<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, this isn’t really a problem. It just means the remaining members of the Republican caucus is going to get some extra attention as the time for for votes approaches.  Strickland and his cronies are essentially driving their car straight down the road to irrelevance.<\/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":[117],"tags":[60],"class_list":["post-13177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-117","tag-60"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3qx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13177","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=13177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}