DEAR EDITOR:
Voters beware! There is an extremely expensive initiative
gathering signatures to be put on the California ballot.
DEAR EDITOR:
Voters beware! There is an extremely expensive initiative gathering signatures to be put on the California ballot. Today, I was approached outside Target in Morgan Hill by a deceitful signature gatherer asking me to sign his petition of an initiative that, if passed, would “cause the legislators to be fined for each day the state budget is late being passed.”
Sounded good to me, especially with the recent budget crisis fresh in my mind. What this lying scoundrel did not mention, however, was that this initiative would also reduce the voting requirement to pass the state budget from two-thirds to a 55 percent super majority. That means it would take fewer politicians to pass the budget.
You might ask yourself why reducing the super-majority requirement is a bad thing; at least the budget could be passed on time, and that is true. But the easiest way for back-scratching politicians to pass the state budget is to simply increase the revenue stream, that is, raise the state income tax level. I don’t know about you, but I am not interested in paying additional income taxes to make our politicians’ job any easier.
If you like paying income taxes, please sign the initiative; otherwise don’t be fooled by the liars’ catch phrases to ” fine our legislators,” there is much more to the initiative than that.
Vic Vanni, Gilroy
Submitted Thursday, Aug. 14, to ed****@****ic.com
