The Maggie's Farm fun-loving and amoral fact-checking and bookkeeping staff invite you to play the ancient traditional New England festive Springtime game called Name That Tractor:
How deeply will the O grovel? Related: Romney roasts the O's posture of apology
How GM lost its way. Ingrassia Related: Brooks on The Quagmire Ahead
The Dems are the Party of Hate. Driscoll
I survived two years of Teach for America. Sex in the stairwells
How Brit hospitals try to keep their stats good
David Warren: We Canadians are stupid
Massive estimates of death are in vogue for Copenhagen
Kasich will run for Ohio gov. Good.
Not a peep from the O on the murdered soldier. Palin knows better
We told you Geithner was funny
How to discuss issues with Lefties. AVI
I had the same thought: Is this murder, or not?
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy posted a remarkable Memorial Day piece
The bloodthirsty Presbyterians are back at it
The GM bailout only delays the inevitable
California: The lunacy of the process argument. One quote:
The thing that absolutely drives me up the wall about the argument that California's biggest problem is a process problem -- the two-thirds rule to adopt budgets and raises taxes -- instead of an inability to live within its means is that the process argument implies that California has been governed in a starve-the-beast mode. In other words, that minority Republicans in the Legislature have managed to keep taxes absurdly and unrealistically low.
Instead, the truth, of course, is that California has the highest gas and sales tax; the highest- or second-highest income tax; and the highest corporate tax rates in the West. Our property taxes are about average nationally, thanks to Prop. 13.
How can anyone look at this picture and make the starve-the-beast argument? How come no one ever points this out on the news pages of the L.A. Times or Sac Bee?
It's not a tendentious, impossible-to-document claim. It's a simple fact: Whatever the barriers are to higher taxes, California has still indisputably ended up with high taxes.
