Don’t Want the Stimulus? Don’t Take it
By Mark Karlin
I have a modest proposal: if a U.S. Senator votes against the “Main Street Job Creation Act” (BuzzFlash’s name for the “stimulus” bill), their state should lose half the funding from the bill. If both U.S. Senators from one state vote against the bill, the state loses its entire allocation from the legislation.
This may sound Draconian, but it might induce the people out of work and with piles of bills to tar and feather the “economic kamikazee” Republican Senators who got America into this mess — and to run them out of the country.
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February 8th, 2009 @ 9:32 pm
And ditto for the GOP ideologues who want to crush the state, by blocking both its budget, and any reasonable and fair tax increases, like restoring what the taxes were under a radical like former Governor Wilson. If they don’t want any state spending, just cut off all spending to their districts. Their constituents might protest and throw their reps out, when they find they are receiving far more from the state than they pay out in taxes. Maybe the donor counties in the article below ought to have a more meaningful vote, like 1 person 1 vote, instead of the fractional vote we have under the unconstitutional 2/3 vote rule.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/06/MNGS15O7NI.DTL&type=printable
State budget cuts would hit GOP areas hardest
Matthew Yi, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau
Friday, February 6, 2009
Counties in far Northern California and the Central Valley, where both Republican leaders of the Legislature live, receive far more state money per capita for education, health, welfare and prisons than the Bay Area or the coastal region, according to a report by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office.
Modoc, Kings, Tulare, Yuba and Fresno counties consume far more state dollars than they contribute, the report found. Modoc County, for example, contributed $768 per capita in taxes to the state’s general fund while receiving $2,216 from the state.
Marin County was the biggest tax donor among the state’s 58 counties, contributing $4,793 per person to the state’s coffers while receiving just $606 in state services. San Mateo, San Francisco and Santa Clara counties rounded out the top four donor counties, while four other Bay Area counties were in the top dozen contributors to the state’s coffers on a per capita basis.
[Read the entire article.]