Who is responsible for California's fiscal mess? Garrick, Harkey, Fletcher and Wyland!

I suggest that anyone who really wants to solve the problem, check out the California Tax Reform Association website
http://caltaxreform.org/?p=211
Read the following article:
"Low Hanging Fruit in the Tax System: 10 Policies for $20 Billion"

Here are ten relatively easy solutions to our INCOME problem for the state treasury. None of which would affect any of those reading my comments here. In fact if these ten proposals were all enacted sales tax and car tax would be reduced for ordinary folks like us while raising an easy twenty billion to fully fund California state colleges and universities, Community colleges and K-12 public schools.

One of these is an absolute no brainer. California produces the third highest amount of oil of any state in the country. Yet we are the only state with no tax on oil production.

Sara Palin raised taxes on oil production in Alaska in 2008. Her whole state is run by the proceeds and there still is plenty of money left over for $2000 to $3500 gift for each and every Alaska resident.

In California Prop 13 passage virtually ended the only tax our state had on oil companies which was their property taxes.

Here in California, USA, we the citizens provide oil companies with a safe drilling environment (unlike Nigeria, Venezuela, Middle East) made possible by the blood and sweat of our military and law enforcement. In return for that blood and sweat, the oil companies give nothing back. For the privilege we grant them of taking all our oil in complete safety physically and economically, they return ZERO to the taxpayers of California. We are in effect subsidizing oil company CEOs hundred million dollar a year salaries. Read more here:
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jun/15/business/fi-hiltzik15
"A California tax on oil drilling? Why not?"

However, we cannot pass any tax increase at all in California. Not even on the super wealthy 1% that control more than 90% of all our wealth.* Why? Because the Republicans in Sacramento refuse to consider even a Sarah Palin type tax on oil production. They just scream and have temper tantrums saying no! no! no! as they are paid to do by their rich sponsors. They vote as a block without dissent (reminds me of the old USSR Politburo).
* http://obrag.org/?p=17786


California state law requires two thirds to pass a annual state budget. It also requires a two thirds majority for any new tax on the wealthy economic elites that are draining our state of resources. The two thirds majority rule means that even though Sac Repubs are a tiny minority, they have the power to stop any new budget or any fix to our California State income crises. With just over one third of the seats in our state legislature, they can and have stopped any legislation to fix the budget nightmare and education funding crises.

Last summer the Sac Repubs stopped all attempts to fully fund education in California. They should feel the wrath of the angry mob. That righteous anger should not be directed at the local school board members who have no control over the 60 to 90% of their local school district funding. The state is supposed to help fund local school districts and it used to before this new brand of straight party line, Politoburo, Sac Republican group started trying to end the functioning of our representative democracy in California and along with its end the end of California public education. The Sac Repubs all should be run out on a rail at the next election.

The Sac Repubs know that they can make far more money from their wealthy CEO sugar daddies than the trifle they take in salaries as legislators who are supposed to be working for the average California citizen. Currently the SAC Repubs are in the pocket of the CEOs that run and loot our major corporations and our government coffers. The Sac Repubs feel they have nothing to fear as the are given political cover daily by the bought and paid for AM radio con men. (Think KFI AM 640 John and Ken). The Republicans in Sacramento do the bidding of their corporate donors first, last, and always. It is time to show them that they can no longer get away with bankrupting the state and destroying our once vaunted educational system.

Don't believe me google California Republicans and Intuit or Turbotax. The Sac Repubs cost the state billions by holding up the state budget last summer so their corporate sponsor Intuit could screw poor Californians out of a state run computer tax filing program that cost Intuit a few tens of thousands in potential business.
http://www.sacbee.com/2009/10/06/2233219/viewpoints-intuit-uses-clout-to.html

No fiscally responsible person should vote for any Republican for any California state office in the next election particularly State Assembly and State Senate.

One of the absolute worst for corporate controlled temper tantrums is a local assemblyman from the 74th assembly district, Martin Garrick. This guy should not even be dog catcher. Here is his website where he brags about forcing these massive cuts on state government, California State Colleges and Universities and public schools. http://arc.asm.ca.gov/member/74/

Martin Garrick and his Republican cronies are political hacks with no hearts and no sense of responsibility to the voters who elected them. Others hacks of his strip are are Diane L. Harkey of the 73rd, and Nathan Fletcher of the 75th. A real trio of cold hearted greed merchants who have their hands out for CEO money. They will jump into action for any CEO with the enough cash. But probably worse of all is State Senator, Mark Wyland of the 38th. He is the biggest weasel by far. Rubbing elbows with the economic elite is one of his favorite pass times especially when they are so generous to him.

Let's sack the whole bunch at the next election this November.

Instead of protesting a local school board's actions in cutting jobs, salaries, school days and programs because they were forced to by drastic state fund cuts, we should be taking the protest to those truly responsible the Sac Repubs like Garrick, Harkey, Fletcher and Wyland the Weasel.

Let these losers know that we the people will take their safe Republican seats away from them if they do not look our for the best interests of the citizens of California.