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2008-11-07 Home Front Economy

States consider billions in cuts as deficits widen

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-11-07 05:01|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Crash the ship of state for the insurance money.

Posted by ed 2008-11-07 07:09|| 2008-11-07 07:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Every entity on the planet will cut spending in bad times, except government.

Why doesn't government?

Posted by badanov 2008-11-07 07:13|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2008-11-07 07:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Negative feedback. The idea is during good times they put some in the bank for the lean years. But somehow beautiful theories get beaten to a pulp by the ugly reality of politics.

Posted by ed 2008-11-07 07:25|| 2008-11-07 07:25|| Front Page Top

#4 The people of Massachusetts had a golden opportunity Tuesday to dump their state income tax. They voted it down. Now I see why they keep sending losers like Frank and Kennedy to DC--they're all masochists who LIKE being hurt.

You've got to be a sick puppy to live in Mass.

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-11-07 07:41|| 2008-11-07 07:41|| Front Page Top

#5 They could have also replaced Kerry with a former US Army officer, Delta Force vet, former agency AND FBI Special Agent who was instrumental in forming the FBI's first HRT element and CT force. He ran his own very successful security business.

New Englanders....they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. I had an old NCO years ago who had spent a lot of time in Army counterintelligence in the late 50's and 60's at Fort Devons and the East Coast. He always said "if the nation goes communist, it will happen in New England first." I have no sympathy for them whatsoever.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-07 07:53|| 2008-11-07 07:53|| Front Page Top

#6 You've got to be a sick puppy to live in Mass.

Call it the Pimp Syndrome. They've found their pimp(s) they're comfortable with.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-11-07 09:13|| 2008-11-07 09:13|| Front Page Top

#7 JM7800,
The only sensible thing the Taxachusetts voters did was to retain an income tax. They are deep in the hole. Someone has to pay. They put in "free" medical care and it's waay in debt already. Have you ever resided in any state with no state income tax ? What you have is 20 or 30 taxing entities instead of one. And they all need increases all the damn time. Of, course they put that shitbag Kerry back in. They certainly are demented in that sense. As for Californios, they're even worse. Fot the past 20 years, they keep passing bond meaures they don't want to pay for. Just proves they can't even operate a calculator. They were fortunate to just have sold about $5 bilion in revenue bonds. But the situation is precarious, because the commies(not Demmos, not lefties...commies) have a deathgrip on the legislature. They insiist on spending 20% more each year than is taken in. When Ahnold mentions cutbacks, everyone starts hollering. His first instinct of 10% across the board cutbacks was correct. Let everyone taste the poison. Otherwise, belly up to the bar and pay the bar bill, chilluns.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-11-07 11:37|| 2008-11-07 11:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Woozie you sank that nail with one stroke of your hammer.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-11-07 14:27|| 2008-11-07 14:27|| Front Page Top

#9 I live here in Khalifornia. At least everyone will be paying the proposed tax and not just "the rich". But the Gov also needs to continue to push a 10% across the board cut in spending. Sure people are going to scream. They like their free stuff. But guess what, I'll bet that each department finds a way to operate on 10% less. I'll bet they discover efficiencies that were staring them in the face. Government is like a tumor...one of the few ways to stop its growth is to cut off its blood supply.

Posted by remoteman 2008-11-07 14:51|| 2008-11-07 14:51|| Front Page Top

#10 City of San Diego is pushing 10% cuts on all Departments, even reimburseables

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-11-07 14:53|| 2008-11-07 14:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Ya gotta be tough to live up here. Either that or you're trapped...

Posted by tu3031 2008-11-07 14:55|| 2008-11-07 14:55|| Front Page Top

#12 Ah, but the first rule of bureaucracy is that, when facing cuts, cut the meat first and leave the fat.

The logic in this is that the powers that be will defend the meat from cuts, but nobody thinks you should have had fat in the first place.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-11-07 14:56|| 2008-11-07 14:56|| Front Page Top

#13 Coloradans just defeated several revenue bills, including one to gut TABOR. This morning's newspaper had an article that the city's Mayor is going to push a sales tax increase in the April city elections. There's plenty of fat to cut, and many other ways to balance the city's budget without a tax increase, but the first instinct of politicians is "raise taxes".

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-11-07 18:04|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-11-07 18:04|| Front Page Top

#14 WE gets it; WA state has something like 800 distinct taxing districts / authorities; each city or county has their own tax rate; our newly reelected donk gov'nor has decreed that WA state will tax internet sales. there are several e-sites that have ceased doing business in the state because they do not have the desire or cash to set up a sales tax table that can capture the correct S.T.
yet any politician that even whispers income tax is dead meat.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2008-11-07 18:05|| 2008-11-07 18:05|| Front Page Top

#15 You guys are wrong. I've lived both types of places, w/income tax and without. With the income tax they can hide the fat/corruption easier. Without it, every one of those little taxing entities has to explain why they need more money and what they intend to use it for.
ANYTIME you can bring government closer to the people and make it more responsive, it gets better. WE, you got it wrong and the people of Mass are damned fools for having not taken the golden opportunity of getting rid of the millstone around their necks. Of course, that's exactly what I would have anticipated they would do, being from Mass...

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-11-07 18:17|| 2008-11-07 18:17|| Front Page Top

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