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Originally Posted by BestXXXPorn
OMG you mean they'd have to shrink the size of the government?!?!?! Oh the horrors!!!
Has anyone noticed that shrinking the government is never an option? It's only, get more money, get more money, get more money... it'll be catastrophic if we don't get more money! We HAVE to have more money...
A sure sign the government has its fingers in too many pies when it requires so much money to sustain itself...
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Not only that, but the first thing they start cutting is police, schools, fire, rescue etc. The things that are most vital to the most people. I'm sure there is a ton of at in the bloated California bureaucracy that can be trimmed before they start doing other things, but they don't do it that way because this makes it look more desperate so when they ask for more money people are more likely to vote for giving it to them.
Here in Oregon several years ago we voted on a measure that put a cap on the percentage of your property value they could charge you in property taxes. The leadership shit their pants and warned how this would cause school closures and police layoffs and all kinds of insanity. Magically a few years later instead of percentage going up, everyone's property value went up. I guess they figured if they can't take it one way they will take it another. Never once, when they were talking about laying off teachers, did they consider getting rid of even one of the over 200 school administrators who work part time at best yet make 6 figure salaries.